Facebook could prohibit the sharing of news in Canada when the country adopts legislation that forces Facebook to reimburse news organizations for publishing their articles. In a blog post published this Friday, Facebook’s parent company Meta claims that the planned Online News Act falsely presumes that it “unfairly benefits from its relationship with publishers.”

Online News Act compels online platforms such as Facebook along with Google to share profits with the media outlets they collect information from. The bill aims to ensure that news media get fair compensation for their efforts. Last week, the Canadian House of Commons Heritage Committee had a public meeting on the bill. However, Meta states that it wasn’t invited.

If this kind of law is familiar, it’s because Australia implemented a similar law last year, known as “the News Media Bargaining Code, ” which requires Facebook and Google to make payments for content published on their platforms. While Australia eventually passed its law, the move was not without significant resistance from Facebook and Google. Facebook shut down news sharing in Australia in protest; in addition, Google threatened to withdraw its search engine out of the country.

While Google has since backed off its plans after striking agreements with media companies, Facebook reversed its news ban after Australia modified its law. Facebook’s temporary ban has not just affected news media but also taken down content by government agencies like local health and fire departments. In the past calendar year, several Facebook whistleblowers argued that the move was a tactic to negotiate and claimed that Facebook employed an excessively expansive definition of what is considered a “news publisher” to create chaos across the nation. Facebook claims the incident occurred “inadvertent.”

Facebook is preparing to place the news feed on hold in Canada if the country does not amend its law. Meta states that articles that link to news stories comprise less than 3% of the content in the feeds of Facebook users and that the information “is not a draw for our users” nor is it a “significant source of revenue.”

“If this draft legislation becomes law, creating globally unprecedented forms of financial liability for news links or content, we may be forced to consider whether we continue to allow the sharing of news content on Facebook in Canada as defined under the Online News Act,” says Meta.

Meta also states that news organizations gain from sharing their articles on Facebook but not the reverse. This month, Meta claims that news outlets registered in Canada have received more than 1.9 billion visits in the last 12 months, earning around 230 million dollars in value. Google was also vocal about the new legislation at the last meeting of the week in which they said that it“will make it harder for Canadians to find and share trusted and authoritative news online,” and that publishers already profit from the traffic they get from Google.

Pablo Rodriguez, the Minister of Canadian Heritage, stated in an interview with The WSJ that Facebook continues “to pull from their playbook used in Australia.” “All we’re asking the tech giants like Facebook to do is negotiate fair deals with news outlets when they profit from their work,” Rodriguez explains.