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House Hansard - 32

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
February 16, 2022 02:00PM
Context: House Hansard - 32 - Feb/16/22
Ms. Leah Gazan (Winnipeg Centre, NDP)
  • Feb/16/22 5:13:23 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-11 
Mr. Speaker, one of the things our party has fought hard for is to ensure that the orders and conditions required by the CRTC from web giants be transparent and public and not contain loopholes that would allow big web giants off the hook to circumvent their obligations to fund Canadian cultural content and make it discoverable. Would my hon. colleague agree that this is absolutely critical and necessary?
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Context: House Hansard - 32 - Feb/16/22
Mr. John Nater
  • Feb/16/22 5:14:10 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-11 
Mr. Speaker, I will go a step further, actually. We need to do much more in terms of how we oversee what happens at the CRTC. In this particular case, the minister has yet to provide policy direction to the CRTC in terms of how this piece of legislation and how this regulatory regime would be implemented when it gets to the CRTC. Without that clear direction from the government, we are left not knowing how the CRTC will be negotiating with individual web giants like NetFlix and Disney+. That is the unknown question. I look forward to hearing from the CRTC at committee to see how it will be interpreting the broad legislative rules when it makes the regulatory changes.
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Context: House Hansard - 32 - Feb/16/22
Mr. Alexandre Boulerice
  • Feb/16/22 6:15:42 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-11 
Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for her question. I know that there is a very active and vibrant artistic community in her riding that has been weakened by the laissez-faire approach of successive federal governments and by the current crisis, which is still ongoing. I think she made an excellent point. As a progressive opposition party, we must be very vigilant about the powers given to the CRTC. I spoke a bit about that earlier. We need to be very serious and firm about information, data transparency, negotiations with web giants and the obligations that will be imposed. In my past life, I often saw the CRTC being somewhat lax, weak and complacent with large corporations. If the directives and guidelines are unclear, we cannot automatically assume that the CRTC will do the right thing.
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