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House Hansard - 37

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
February 28, 2022 11:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 37 - Feb/28/22
Ms. Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné (Terrebonne, BQ)
  • Feb/28/22 5:11:45 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-11 
Madam Speaker, the Liberal Party and the Bloc Québécois agree on one thing, and that does not happen often. The thing we agree on is the presence of Quebec and Canadian content on platforms. If this is what matters, why exclude algorithms from the methods to ultimately achieve the same result?
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Context: House Hansard - 37 - Feb/28/22
Mr. Lloyd Longfield (Guelph, Lib.)
  • Feb/28/22 5:14:36 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-11 
Madam Speaker, the crux of this legislation is that streaming platforms have access to our market in Canada, but do not have any responsibility to pay for our content creators, our artists and our performers, and this act is there to help with our performers. I have heard Conservatives across the way saying that this is the government reaching in, when really it is the government giving tools to the CRTC to be able to support our industries. Could the member talk about how the governance actually works between the Government of Canada, the CRTC and the market?
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Context: House Hansard - 37 - Feb/28/22
Mr. Anthony Housefather
  • Feb/28/22 8:40:59 p.m.
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Mr. Chair, we need to make sure that platforms are held accountable for driving traffic to disinformation. We have seen, over and over, that platforms seek to monetize and make revenue and make sure that people stay on platforms for as long as possible. Hate is driven to hate, and people who believe in one world theory are driven to other conspiracy theories that they would agree with, keeping them on a platform longer. We need to make sure that platforms are not allowed to continue to do that. We also need to make sure that disinformation is not only flagged but removed when it poses a threat to a nation's security. I think Russia has been the most culpable, but there are other foreign threats in this regard, and we need to take this very seriously.
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