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Controversial Bill C-10 is heading to the justice minister for a second review of whether it impacts Charter rights, a day after Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault issued contradictory statements about whether Canadians’ social media accounts will be regulated under the bill.
Konrad von Finckenstein, former chairman of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, said the government has not been clear what the broadcasting bill, and the various amendments the government has put forward in recent weeks, will do.
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1. Airport shooting: Homicide investigators say the victim of a brazen mid-afternoon shooting outside Vancouver International Airport Sunday afternoon is a 28-year-old man who was known to police.
2. Online content: While the government insists that individuals online content won t be subject to federal regulations under Bill C-10, the CRTC could impose regulations on accounts that have a large following or are making money, according to Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault.
While the government continues to insist that individuals online audio or video content won t be subject to federal regulations under Bill C-10, the Canadian Radio-television and telecommunications Commission (CRTC) could impose regulations related to discoverability of online content on accounts that have a large enough following or are making enough money off of it, according to Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault.
OTTAWA While the government continues to insist that individuals online audio or video content won t be subject to federal regulations under Bill C-10, the Canadian Radio-television and telecommunications Commission (CRTC) could impose regulations on accounts that have a large enough following or are making enough money off of it, according to Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault. In an interview on CTV’s Question Period with Evan Solomon, the minister said that while the CRTC isn’t going to be regulating user-generated content, they may be able to have certain regulating powers related to discoverability of online content, if an account s channel has “millions of viewers,” are “generating a lot of money on social media,” and are “acting like broadcasters.”
iPolitics By Janet E Silver. Published on May 3, 2021 5:50pm The House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa (Jolson Lim/iPolitics)
Conservative MPs are raising baseless fears and putting a false spin on Bill C-10, an Act to amend the Broadcasting Act, says Julie Drabusin, parliamentary secretary to Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault.
Drabusin made the comments after members of the Heritage committee spent nearly two hours on Monday debating a Conservative motion that would have the Justice minister provide a new Charter statement, after the government removed user-generated content from the bill last month.
Section 4.1 was taken out because it “excluded social-media platforms,” Guilbeault said in a statement Monday.