Google offers 2 top executives to testify at parliamentary committee | 24CA News

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Published 18.03.2023
Google offers 2 top executives to testify at parliamentary committee  | 24CA News

Google says it can volunteer a few of its high executives to testify at a parliamentary committee.

In a press release, the corporate says it goals to work constructively with the heritage committee that’s learning the actions of Google after the Silicon Valley big ran a five-week take a look at that blocked news hyperlinks to a few of its Canadian customers.

The take a look at was meant to evaluate the consequences of a possible response to Bill C-18, the Liberal authorities’s controversial Online News Act.

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A spokesperson says Google shall be making their president of worldwide affairs and chief authorized officer, Kent Walker and vice chairman of news, Richard Gingras accessible to fulfill with the committee.

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Both rejected a summons by the committee earlier this month.

The head of Google Canada appeared of their place, however Google says it acknowledges that MPs on the committee proceed to have questions that they want to have answered.

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