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House Hansard - 173

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
March 27, 2023 11:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 173 - Mar/27/23
Mr. Pat Kelly
  • Mar/27/23 10:52:22 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-11 
Madam Speaker, I guess this member is sort of a part of the government, or his party is governing with the Liberals. Why did the government not exempt user-generated content and the uploading of user-generated content? This is a big bill, and I am not going to oppose everything that is contained within it. I am not going to suggest that every motivation behind the tabling of this bill was wrong, but the bill is unsupportable to the extent that it would grant new and extraordinary powers to the CRTC that do not belong in a free and democratic society. I, frankly, do not see how this bill, if passed, would necessarily solve the problems that the member suggested. It would take away all kinds of opportunities for other Canadian content creators to find an audience through an unfettered Internet.
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Context: House Hansard - 173 - Mar/27/23
Mr. Pat Kelly
  • Mar/27/23 10:54:36 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-11 
Madam Speaker, I would invite the member to listen more carefully then, because I did not say many of the words that she put in my mouth, and she did not notice or note any of the words other than a couple that she picked here and there. I said quite the opposite of what I think of Canadian content. I talked about the regulation of Canadian content, and I oppose it in this bill.
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Context: House Hansard - 173 - Mar/27/23
Mr. Pat Kelly (Calgary Rocky Ridge, CPC)
  • Mar/27/23 11:48:20 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-11 
Madam Speaker, we have heard a lot tonight about creating even playing fields, but Bill C-11 is about doing the opposite. It would make the field less even, take us backward and jam the Internet into a 1971 system around Canadian content. I wonder if the member could comment on whether he agrees that there is nothing more even than the playing field of an unfettered Internet.
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