The Liberals’ pending internet regulation bill must provide a “flexible” definition of what it considers to be “Canadian content” if it is going to successfully promote Canadian culture and creators for the country’s viewership, several media giant executives say. “The rules defining what qualifies as Canadian content should be updated and related obligations should reflect…
Liberals’ Internet Regulation Bill Must Provide ‘Flexible’ Definition of Canadian Content, Media Giant Executives Say
Liberals’ Internet Regulation Bill Must Provide ‘Flexible’ Definition of Canadian Content, Media Executives Say
The Liberals’ pending internet regulation bill must provide a “flexible” definition of what it considers to be “Canadian content” if it is going to successfully promote Canadian culture and creators for the country’s viewership, several media giant executives say. “The rules defining what qualifies as Canadian content should be updated and related obligations should reflect…
Liberals’ Internet Regulation Bill Constitutes a ‘Power Grab Over Human Communications’: Former CRTC Commissioner
The Liberals’ bill to regulate internet content would constitute government overreach into the everyday activities of Canadians, says a former CRTC commissioner, who called the scope of Bill C-11 “absurd” and a “power grab over human communications.” “We oppose C-11 because it embodies a fundamentally illiberal idea of communications, because it constitutes a vast overreach of…
‘We Want to See Privacy Considered’: Privacy Commissioner Suggests Bill C-11 Be Amended
Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne said his office is recommending changes be made to the pending Bill C-11 to ensure that Canadians’ privacy will be protected in the collection of their data and content consumption, should the bill pass the Senate. “The implementation of the bill in a way that ensures that requested information is de-identified or…
Digital Media Companies Petition the Senate to Slow Process on Internet Regulation Bill
YouTube, Apple Music, and other digital media companies are petitioning the Senate to slow the final passage of a bill aimed at regulating the internet. “We urge this committee to pause,” the executives of the companies wrote in a letter to the standing Senate committee on transport and communications, according to Blacklock’s Reporter. Bill C-11,…
Liberals’ Online Streaming Bill Will Hurt Consumer Choice, Says Tech Trade Group
One of the world’s largest tech trade groups says the federal government’s online streaming bill will place a “regulatory hand” on how consumers choose content and must be rewritten. “Experience teaches that governments should be modest about imposing obligations on the technological future,” said the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) in a written submission to the…
John Robson: In Our Hearts We’re All Heroes, but in the Real World Speaking Up Takes Courage
Commentary Would you appear on a platform next to Salman Rushdie? Inside our heads, I suppose, we’re all heroes. We’d have been anti-Nazi in the 1930s, anti-Communist in the 1970s, anti-slavery in the 1850s, anti-Nero in ancient Rome, anti-Nazgul in Middle Earth, and so forth. But in the real world it takes commitment and courage…
Peter Menzies: CRTC Sanctioning of Network Proves Skeptics Right to Fear Govt. Regulation of Internet
Commentary The authors of Canada’s plans to regulate the internet have insisted for almost two years that freedom of expression is not at risk. On June 29, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), proved them wrong. In a stunning decision that prompted a pair of brave dissentients, the CRTC sanctioned Société Radio-Canada (SRC) for using…
Canada Should Recognize Taiwan as a Sovereign State, Says Tory Leadership Candidate Scott Aitchison
Conservative leadership candidate and MP Scott Aitchison says it’s important to recognize Taiwan as a sovereign state, and that the “One China” policy has been a “failure.” “Taiwan is a vibrant democracy right next door to the behemoth communist regime of China. They’re constantly under [the regime’s] bully tactics and threats, and yet, that’s a…
Liberals’ Online Streaming Act Passes Third Reading in Parliament, Heads to Senate
The Liberal government’s online streaming bill is heading to the Senate. Bill C-11 passed third reading in the House of Commons Tuesday with a vote of 208–117, with the Liberals, NDP, and Bloc defeating the Conservatives and Green MP Mike Morrice who voted against it. If the bill is passed in the Senate and receives…
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