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Article 325
 

Online platforms that are subject to requirements


(1) This section and section 325.2 apply to any online platform that, in the 12 months before the first day of the pre-election period, in the case of the publication on the platform of a partisan advertising message, or the 12 months before the first day of the election period, in the case of the publication on the platform of an election advertising message, was visited or used by Internet users in Canada an average of at least the following numbers of times per month:


(a) 3,000,000 times, if the content of the online platform is available mainly in English;


(b) 1,000,000 times, if the content of the online platform is available mainly in French; or


(c) 100,000 times, if the content of the online platform is available mainly in a language other than English or French.