A challenge to new Canadian copyright law

"As I understand it, Access Copyright acts as agents for royalty collection for all copyright materials used in courses by Canadian universities and colleges. This provides one stop shopping for copyright clearance and payment of a fee per intended user. Thus if I wanted to use in a distance education course an academic article from a journal published by a commercial publisher for a course of 30 students, in the old days I would pay $3.39 + 10 cents per page per student for the right to distribute this material to each of of the 30 students. Thus the university would pay $120 roughly per year per article. However, Access Copyright wants to apply the same rules for hyperlinks. It is not clear from the report if this is for hyperlinks to anything, or just hyperlinks to copyrighted academic material. Furthermore, they want to up the costs to $45 per student. So if I want to hyperlink to an academic article, this would now cost the university $1,350 per article for a class of 30 students – some hike! ..."