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Creating proposed online harms regulators could cost $200 million: budget watchdog

  • Stephanie Taylor

  • Canadian Press

  • July 4, 2024

Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux waits to appear before a committee at the Senate in Ottawa, on Monday, June 3, 2024. The Parliamentary Budget Officer estimates that staffing up the new regulatory bodies proposed in the Liberal government's Online Harms Act will cost around $200 million over five years.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby