OTTAWA Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault is calling for MPs to support Canadian creators and “quickly” pass Bill C-10, as he sought to defend the legislation’s aims amid concerns about the implications the Broadcasting Act changes would have for everyday users of social media. Testifying at the House of Commons Heritage Committee which is studying Bill C-10 but had put the clause-by-clause review on pause in an effort to gain clarity from the minister and other experts amid ongoing mixed messaging Guilbeault said several times that the bill is meant to go after platforms, not people. “I hope the committee will resume its work, and quickly move Bill C-10 back to the House of Commons,” he said.
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Canadian Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault is seen during a news conference Thursday, June 18, 2020 in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld May 14, 2021 - 1:38 PM
OTTAWA - Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault is doubling down on his controversial new broadcasting bill at a parliamentary committee hearing, citing a Justice Department analysis to reiterate the legislation would not affect free speech online.
A charter impact statement from Justice officials this week found that the would-be law, known as Bill C-10, would not encroach on social-media users freedom of expression.
Opposition MPs remained unsatisfied Friday, however, demanding that Justice Minister David Lametti come before the House of Commons heritage committee to clarify points of contention around the bill.
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It needs to be fed to a dumpster.
Even Peter Menzies, former vice-chair of the CRTC and retired editor-publisher of Postmedia’s Calgary Herald, agrees.
“Overall (Bill C-10) ensures that going forward all Canadians communicating over the internet will do so under the guise of the state,” he said Wednesday during a Macdonald-Laurier Institute webinar. “In doing so, this opens a door that, in my view, should remain closed.”
Worse, he said, “the government itself doesn’t seem to understand what it is doing.”
In the Senate, it is Hall of Fame broadcaster Pamela Wallin, once a senior news force on CTV, who is leading the charge and vowing to stop Bill C-10 from becoming law.
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Liberal and NDP MPs voted in committee last week to shut down debate on a motion on their Bill C-10 which would give the Federal government â through the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) â unprecedented censorship powers over broadcasting by expanding the definition to include everything from newspaper websites to user-generated content on social media. The Conservatives had put forward a motion that this would violate the Charter of Rights protection in Sec.2b that âEveryone has the following fundamental freedoms: (b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication.â