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House Hansard - 69

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 11, 2022 02:00PM
Context: House Hansard - 69 - May/11/22
Mr. John Nater (Perth—Wellington, CPC)
  • May/11/22 2:40:53 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-11 
Mr. Speaker, will the government commit to releasing its policy directive to the CRTC before voting on Bill C-11?
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Context: House Hansard - 69 - May/11/22
Mr. John Nater (Perth—Wellington, CPC)
  • May/11/22 2:41:43 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-11 
Mr. Speaker, if the Prime Minister is so proud of his approach, why does he not simply release the policy directive that he will be sending to the CRTC to implement this law? This “just trust us” approach does not inspire confidence in the Canadian people. The government is asking an entity that has neither the capacity nor the competence to regulate vast swaths of the Internet, but the government will not disclose how it will instruct it to do so. Canadians are rightly concerned about how this will impact what they see and hear online. Why is the government asking Parliament to give the CRTC more power over Canadians without telling Canadians what the CRTC will be doing with that power?
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Context: House Hansard - 69 - May/11/22
Mr. John Nater (Perth—Wellington, CPC)
Madam Speaker, first of all, I find it passing strange that the minister is citing as an excuse for time allocation that there was a lot of time for debating Bill C-10 in the previous Parliament, so I think Canadians would be interested to know that this is truly just a repeat of Bill C-10 from the previous Parliament. I have a very specific question for the minister. The government is committed to providing a policy directive to the CRTC after Bill C-11 is passed. The government will decide, after this bill is passed, how it will impact things like discoverability, Canadian content and digital-first creators. That impact will happen after Bill C-11 is passed, so we are being told, “Just trust us.” I have a very simple question to ease the minds of many opposition MPs: Would the government be willing to table the policy directive to the CRTC prior to the passage of Bill C-11?
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Context: House Hansard - 69 - May/11/22
Mr. Eric Melillo
  • May/11/22 9:47:40 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-11 
Madam Speaker, I thank the member for Barrie—Innisfil for his kind comments. I would simply say that the lack of clarity, the fact that there is no transparency on what that directive will look like, really leaves it open to interpretation. It leaves it open to the fact that any Canadian content could fall under this.
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Context: House Hansard - 69 - May/11/22
Mr. John Brassard (Barrie—Innisfil, CPC)
  • May/11/22 10:12:15 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-11 
Madam Speaker, one of the most concerning parts about Bill C-11 is that the government does not have to release the policy directive to the CRTC on user-generated content, and it does not have to do it while we are debating the bill. In fact, the expectation is that, once the bill is passed, the policy directive will be shared with the CRTC. In the absence of any knowledge of what that directive may look like, does it not concern the Bloc that this bill does not reflect what that policy directive is as we debate the bill? We are effectively debating something that we are not sure of, in terms of what is going to happen. Is that not a concern to my hon. colleague?
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