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House Hansard - 69

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 11, 2022 02:00PM
Context: House Hansard - 69 - May/11/22
Right Hon. Justin Trudeau (Prime Minister, Lib.)
  • May/11/22 2:42:25 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-11 
Mr. Speaker, in this country, the CRTC has always ensured that we promote Canadian creators creating Canadian content. That is what it has done on the radio waves for decades, ensuring that we have Canadian music played on radio stations. That is what it has done with TV, ensuring that Canadian content gets put on Canadian TV, not just as a way of telling our stories, but also as a way of encouraging creators and producers in Canada. In a digital world, we need to ensure, in the same way, that Canadian producers of content are protected and upheld, and that is exactly what Bill C-11 would do.
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Context: House Hansard - 69 - May/11/22
Mr. Joël Godin (Portneuf—Jacques-Cartier, CPC)
  • May/11/22 3:06:09 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the government promised that by 2035, every car sold in Canada would be zero-emission. RBC estimates that building the network of charging stations will require an annual investment of $25 billion. Officials have said in committee that the construction of this network has not even been costed yet. Is the government choosing to stay in the dark or does it just not care that it is sending another bill to Canadians?
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Context: House Hansard - 69 - May/11/22
Mrs. Cheryl Gallant (Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke, CPC)
  • May/11/22 8:58:07 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-11 
Mr. Speaker, if the Liberals really wanted to drive this bill all night long, they would not have called closure on it. More to the point, they were talking about this bill applying to broadcasters. Our concern is the definition of “broadcaster”. What we find with the Liberal government is that the definitions expand, and we are concerned that the broadcasters will now be the people who are broadcasting their own news stations. We had Canada Proud and True North slagged as broadcasters. Are they now going to have to pay into CanCon as well?
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Context: House Hansard - 69 - May/11/22
Mr. Arnold Viersen
  • May/11/22 9:56:35 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-11 
Madam Speaker, one of the things the Liberals talk about incessantly with this bill is levelling the playing field. As I iterated to the member's colleague just prior to this speech, a couple of organizations in my riding are trying to get a radio station started, and it takes, on average, three years to get approval from the CRTC to get a radio station. It seems to me that one of the things that would level the playing field would be to make it so that someone could sign up for a radio station in about the same amount of time it takes to sign up for a podcast, which is about 45 minutes, maybe less. Would the member not agree that in levelling the playing field between heritage media forms and new media forms, we should be trying to reduce the barriers for all of them? On the Internet there is unlimited freedom. One can reach a large network. People living in northern Canada often do not have good Internet access or the capacity to get podcasts, but if we could get local radio stations fired up in about the same time it would take a podcast—
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