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House Hansard - 176

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
March 30, 2023 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 176 - Mar/30/23
Mr. Jeremy Patzer (Cypress Hills—Grasslands, CPC)
  • Mar/30/23 12:29:11 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, one of the fundamental concerns, and there are many, that we have on this side of the House would be the fact that the CRTC would be the arbiter of what is allowed online. It would be the one in control possibly of the formula. When we look at the potential for user-generated content to be regulated, it would be the CRTC, a big government approach to this, rather than just letting it be an open environment where people can put the content that they want online so it can be discovered by anybody from any region of the country, or possibly even outside of the boundaries of our country. Would the member not agree that it is a good thing to have more discoverability rather than having a narrow-minded focus that the CRTC and the government are going to apply to user-generated content?
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Context: House Hansard - 176 - Mar/30/23
Mr. Martin Champoux
  • Mar/30/23 12:29:58 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the premise of the question would suggest that the government and the CRTC will interfere with what people can and cannot watch. This shows that the member does not understand the bill's intent. I will leave it at that. Discoverability is not about an open market. Discoverability is about ensuring that our culture has its place. For that, we need a framework and regulations. This does not mean that the government is going to decide what people can or cannot watch. That is another example of the misinformation that we have been denouncing from the beginning.
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Context: House Hansard - 176 - Mar/30/23
Mr. Jeremy Patzer (Cypress Hills—Grasslands, CPC)
  • Mar/30/23 4:25:34 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I am just wondering if the member opposite could provide an answer to a question one of the independent senators had as they were going through the bill. Could he actually provide a clear definition for what the term “discoverability” means?
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Context: House Hansard - 176 - Mar/30/23
Mr. Francesco Sorbara
  • Mar/30/23 4:25:58 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, one of the great things about the way this bill has been looked at and examined by both Houses is that it has been quite a robust discussion. I understand, from reading the notes on the bill, that many tough questions were asked, including the member opposite's question on the issue of discoverability. What is important is that we are modernizing the Broadcasting Act for the first time since 1991. Content creators would continue to have free rein in the generation of the content they wish to produce, post online and show to users and viewers here in Canada and around the world.
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Context: House Hansard - 176 - Mar/30/23
Ms. Lori Idlout (Nunavut, NDP)
  • Mar/30/23 7:53:28 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-11 
Uqaqtittiji, I have not been surprised, I guess, by the Conservative rhetoric during this debate on Bill C-11. They are quite repetitive in their interventions. They have not shared any real interventions on the actual text of the bill, including on discoverability, which in this act will be to ensure that cultural content created by artists is accessible and promoted and that discoverability requirements will not authorize the CRTC to impose conditions that require the use of a particular computer algorithm or source code. I wonder if the member can explain to us what the Conservatives understand the discoverability clauses to be in the bill.
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