OTTAWA — The federal trade minister says Canadians shouldn’t fear about utilizing TikTok, regardless of an ongoing nationwide safety assessment of the corporate.
Business Minister François-Philippe Champagne says dad and mom don’t have to be involved about their children’ use of the favored video app.
He says they need to be reassured the federal government was “forward of the curve” in launching the assessment six months in the past.
The federal Liberals ordered a nationwide safety assessment of TikTok in September 2023 however didn’t disclose it publicly till this week.
The revelation got here after the U.S. Home of Representatives handed a invoice Wednesday to ban TikTok until its China-based proprietor sells its stake within the enterprise.
Champagne says any actions because of the Canadian assessment could be directed towards the corporate, not customers, although he declined to say when that course of is perhaps completed.
