Ontario education minister meets with YouTube on classroom distractions [Video]

Ontario’s education minister says she has met with executives from online video giant YouTube as part of a push by the government to engage social media companies in tackling classroom distractions.

In the spring, the government announced that, instead of participating in a lawsuit against social media companies led by some of Ontario’s largest school boards, it would meet with executives at the companies.

Then-education minister Stephen Lecce said he felt it was more productive to discuss how they could work with the companies instead of fighting them in court.

Months after that announcement, however, new Education Minister Jill Dunlop said she was still working out the details of meetings and trying to arrange them with various social media companies.

In October, Dunlop was able to book her first meeting.

“I have met with YouTube recently and talked to the organization about what they do to protect children and young people online,” she said Monday, referencing a …