Not even just fees, they want Meta/Google and the news sites to come to a payment agreement after the fact with the government as the arbitrator. Only an idiot would make that deal, especially since it woild open the floodgates for every country on Earth to demand the same.
Not a fan of meta, but the Canadian government said they had to pay fees to allow news sharing in Canada.
The government could put up their own site, or send out alerts through phone, there's no reason the need to rely on Meta for this. Especially after creating a law that pushed meta to stop to begin with.