Bill C-18 is remarkably bad legislation. Figuring out this was the inevitable outcome of the legislation wasn’t 4D chess.

I don't follow. The bill worked in a sense, that it motivated a payout deal.

people were saying this right from the beginning: social media won’t pay for links it doesn’t need

Here we are, Google is paying $100MM for them, no? The difference is that they're doing lump sum instead?