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Article content Here are some questions for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault about Bill C-10, “An Act to amend the Broadcasting Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts.” How is giving government the power to regulate videos Canadians post on social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok a justified restriction of their right to free expression under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms? We apologize, but thi...

iPolitics By Rachel Emmanuel. Published on Apr 30, 2021 5:32pm The West Block of the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa (Jolson Lim/iPolitics) The government must seek a new Charter statement for its legislation updating the Broadcasting Act, after it was amended last week to include the regulation of social-media content, say Conservative MPs. The MPs were speaking Friday at the House of Commons’ Canadian Heritage committee, one week after the government removed its exc...

The bill sponsored by Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault is intended to update the Broadcasting Act to better reflect how people and companies use the internet, including social media platforms. The government says internet platforms such as YouTube and Facebook distribute video content or music to Canadians, and should be overseen by the CRTC, which regulates TV and radio broadcasters. But Conservative MP Rachael Harder argues the heritage committee went too far by removing a section of the p...

Attention web giants: Recess is over A small group of nations, led by Canada, have been quietly preparing to take on the tech giants. Inside their battle to rein in the most powerful companies on Earth. By Alec Castonguay April 30, 2021 This story by Alec Castonguay first appeared in L’actualité and has been translated from French It’s the dead of night when Steven Guilbeault’s alarm clock wakes him up. He jumps into the shower, puts on a blue suit, adjusts his grey tie—even...

Fri, Apr 30th 2021 12:11pm — Leigh Beadon Its Canadas 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 the CRTC (Canadas counterpart to the FCC) authority o...

Justin Trudeau Wants to Control What You Say Online Ted Falk, Author Freedom of thought, belief, opinion, and expression is a fundamental right, guaranteed by our Charter. In recent years we have seen an increase in activity by those who want to smother that freedom. The “woke” movement, with its obsession with political correctness and corresponding “cancel culture”, has reared its ugly head on our university campuses, in the media, and the business world. Now they have their sights se...

Heritage committee wont reverse change to Bill C-10 despite public outcry by The Canadian Press Last Updated Apr 30, 2021 at 5:14 pm EDT The Peace Tower is pictured on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Monday, Jan. 25, 2021, as lawmakers return to the House of Commons following the winter break. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick OTTAWA — Liberal and opposition members of Parliament split along party lines Friday while discussing the public outcry sparked by the adoption of a new amendment to Bill...

David Paddon The Peace Tower is pictured on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Monday, Jan. 25, 2021. Liberal and opposition members of Parliament split along party lines Friday over what to do about a public outcry sparked by the adoption of a new amendment to Bill C-10. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick April 30, 2021 - 3:33 PM Days of debate over whether revisions to the Broadcasting Act could undermine Canadian rights and freedoms continued Friday. Liberal and opposit...

Your free speech is at risk with Ottawas push to regulate online content, experts warn The federal government is facing an uproar over controversial changes to a bill that would bring videos and other content posted to social media sites like YouTube under the purview of the countrys broadcasting regulator. So what is it proposing? Social Sharing

iPolitics By Rachel Emmanuel. Published on Apr 29, 2021 4:55pm Conservative Leader Erin OToole in Ottawa in February 2018 (Matthew Usherwood/iPolitics) The Liberal government’s effort to regulate social-media content amounts to censorship of political speech it doesn’t like, charged Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole on Thursday.  O’Toole made the comment during question period, after the government amended C-10 in its final stages of committee review to include social media a...