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Liberals promise amendments to Broadcasting Act to address concerns that the federal government is trying to regulate Canadians’ social-media posts

Article content The Liberal government is promising to change broadcasting Bill C-10 following a week of controversy that an amendment to the legislation infringes Canadians’ rights to free expression. Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault said a new amendment would make it “crystal clear” that social media posts by Canadians would not be subject to regulation by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing ...

Morning Brief: Rodriguez caught cursing; feds to amend Bill C-10 By iPolitics. Published on May 4, 2021 6:05am Government House leader Pablo Rodriguez pictured in a virtual appearance before a parliamentary committee in February, 2021. (Photo via screenshot). Today’s Morning Brief is brought to you by the Port of Québec. The Port of Québec City has been the gateway to North America for centuries. Building Laurentia, the deep-water, fully intermodal container terminal, will revita...

Premier Jason Kenney said public-health measures are being ignored by too many people as the third wave has left the province with the highest infection rates in North America

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Canadian Government Wants To Regulate Social Media Like Broadcast Published: May 3, 2021 It’s Canada’s turn in the carousel of attempts at terrible internet regulation around the world. The ruling Liberal party, which professor and internet law researcher Michael Geist has called the most anti-internet government in Canadian history for its wide variety of planned new internet laws, has been working for months on a bill to amend the Broadcasting Act and greatly broaden its scope, giving th...

The real consequences of Steven Guilbeault’s battle with the web giants Michael Geist: Below the surface of the Liberal governments effort to crack down on big tech lies an even bigger threat—the implications for free speech in Canada By Michael Geist May 3, 2021 Guilbeault speaks with the media in the foyer of the House of Commons on Feb. 3, 2020 (CP/Adrian Wyld) Michael Geist holds the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of...

Article content The Liberal government is promising to change broadcasting Bill C-10 following a week of controversy that an amendment to the legislation infringes Canadians’ rights to free expression. Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault said a new amendment would make it “crystal clear” that social media posts by Canadians would not be subject to regulation by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing ...

Inside the Comprehensive Liberal Bill to Regulate the Internet Tristin Hopper, National Post, April 29, 2021 After more than 25 years of Canadian governments pursuing a hands-off approach to the online world, the government of Justin Trudeau is now pushing Bill C-10, a law that would see Canadians subjected to the most regulated internet in the free world. Although pitched as a way to expand Canadian content provisions to the online sphere, the powers of Bill C-10 have expanded considerably in ...

Article content Understand one thing: If the Liberals are able to pass Bill C-10 – an update of the Broadcasting Act – Canada will have the most-regulated Internet in the free world. “The plan is not for us to regulate all of the Internet,” Toronto Liberal MP Julie Dabrusin, told the Commons Heritage committee this week. Dabrusin is parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Heritage, Montreal Liberal MP Steven Guilbeault. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing ...