A Senate committee is rewriting Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act proposed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government, after it passed third reading in the House of Commons in June. The Senate has been petitioned by multiple large corporations to amend the bill, including YouTube, Apple Music, and Spotify.
The Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications has put forward 100 different amendments to the bill, which aims to update the Broadcasting Act for today’s digital environment.
The government has promoted the bill as a way to make Canadian content more prominent and to prioritize Canadians’ needs and interests, saying that the last major reform of the Broadcasting Act was in 1991, before the rise of online streaming services….