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House Hansard - 92

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
June 20, 2022 11:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 92 - Jun/20/22
Ms. Elizabeth May (Saanich—Gulf Islands, GP)
  • Jun/20/22 1:16:20 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-21 
Madam Speaker, I found the hon. member for Provencher's discussion of issues of the heart and issues of the law compelling. This quote from the Reverend Martin Luther King is relevant: It may be true that morality cannot be legislated, but behaviour can be regulated. It may be true that the law cannot change the heart, but it can restrain the heartless. It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can restrain him from lynching me. I wonder if, in that regard, the hon. member thinks there is a role for the state in regulating gun ownership.
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Context: House Hansard - 92 - Jun/20/22
Mr. Ted Falk
  • Jun/20/22 1:16:55 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-21 
Madam Speaker, I think I said something very similar to what the member quoted from Martin Luther King in my speech. I thank her for reiterating that laws cannot regulate the heart, but certainly the actions that proceed from what is in an individual's heart can be regulated.
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Context: House Hansard - 92 - Jun/20/22
Ms. Heather McPherson
  • Jun/20/22 6:14:06 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-11 
Madam Speaker, the reality is that what people see online is already being regulated. It is being regulated by multinational corporations that are not paying their fair share. They decide what people get to see. They already do that, and they do not contribute. To say that there is somehow going to be some strange oversight that is going to go too far is really misleading, and is really disappointing to hear.
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Context: House Hansard - 92 - Jun/20/22
Mr. Mike Morrice
  • Jun/20/22 7:35:06 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-11 
Madam Speaker, I want to make clear to the parliamentary secretary that I do agree with him. As I said in my speech, it has been quite some time since the Broadcasting Act was first passed. There is an important need to modernize the Act, and I am glad the governing party prioritized that. I also believe it is important to get it right. While there are many stakeholders, as he has mentioned, who are supportive, there are also many others, some of whom I mentioned, such as Canadian YouTube content creators, who are quite concerned. I go back again. Yes, it is a difficult decision not to support this legislation, but the analysis I am doing is weighing harm versus good. My concern here is that, with this legislation as currently written, given some of the vague language and allowing for user-generated content to be regulated as it does, it is open to the possibility of more harm than good.
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