A Canadian regulator said on Wednesday it will impose a fee on Google to recover the cost of enforcing a law that requires large internet platforms to pay for news content on their websites.

Canada’s broadcast regulator will slap a levy on Google starting April 1 to help finance enforcement costs, which risks exacerbating heightened trade tensions between the Trump administration and Ottawa.

Google will have to pay a levy to use Canadian news content in their search engine. The ruling comes amid rising tensions between Canada and

Canadas telecom regulator, the CRTC, announced it will impose a fee on Google starting April 1 to recover enforcement costs for the Online News Act. The law mandates that large internet platforms compensate news