A House of Commons committee decided on Feb. 28 to summon Google executives to testify over the company’s decision to test the blocking of news links in response to the Liberal government’s Bill C-18.
“I think it’s important for Parliament to take a look and see what Google is doing, I don’t particularly like their track record on this,” said Liberal MP Chris Bittle at the committee meeting.
“It’s a company that has not necessarily been responsible, but at the same time does not want any regulation.”
Bittle’s motion to summon Google executives to testify on March 6 was adopted unanimously and seeks to hear from Google CEO Sundar Pichai….