> As evidenced by the average RoI at Google compared to news organisations.

Not a good metric.

The ROI difference is because of both entities being in different industries, and other things unrelated to the power balance. We can similarly compare the ROI of a news organization and say a restaurant and lament that there is an imbalance of power.

I expect you'll find that discontinuing their news linking service in Canada has very little effect on Google's profitability.

I agree that Canada should probably have targeted their ad service rather than which link they publish.

One is the world’s dominant gateway to the internet, the others are a handful of websites.