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Context: House Hansard - 173 - Mar/27/23

Ms. Lisa Hepfner (Hamilton Mountain, Lib.)

Mar/27/23 7:00:22 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-11

Madam Speaker, I really want to thank the member for Timmins—James Bay for his intervention. I appreciated how he has been calling out some of the harmful, and frankly, disgusting rhetoric coming from the other side of the House. Could the member explain to us what he thinks would happen to Canadian arts and culture if we did not have a Bill C-11 to hold these companies with market dominance on the Internet to account?

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Context: House Hansard - 173 - Mar/27/23

Ms. Lisa Hepfner (Hamilton Mountain, Lib.)

Mar/27/23 8:22:52 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-11

Mr. Speaker, does my colleague from across the way truly think the Internet is some wild, open place where people can post and see whatever they want, or does he actually think that the companies with dominance on the Internet are making decisions for us about what we should watch and what we have access to?

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Context: House Hansard - 173 - Mar/27/23

Ms. Lisa Hepfner (Hamilton Mountain, Lib.)

Mar/27/23 8:22:52 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-11

Mr. Speaker, does my colleague from across the way truly think the Internet is some wild, open place where people can post and see whatever they want, or does he actually think that the companies with dominance on the Internet are making decisions for us about what we should watch and what we have access to?

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Context: House Hansard - 173 - Mar/27/23

Ms. Lisa Hepfner (Hamilton Mountain, Lib.)

Mar/27/23 10:03:42 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-11

Madam Speaker, first of all, there is nothing in the legislation that lays out what CanCon is. What the legislation does is ask platforms to make Canadian content more findable for Canadians. What in making Canadian content more findable takes away choices from Canadians to watch whatever they want to watch? Just because people can find Schitt's Creek more easily online, that does not mean they cannot watch something else if that is what they prefer.

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Context: House Hansard - 173 - Mar/27/23

Ms. Lisa Hepfner (Hamilton Mountain, Lib.)

Mar/27/23 10:19:18 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-11

Madam Speaker, I was very interested in the member opposite talking about the Internet being this vast place, international without borders, where one could find all this content. I am wondering if the member honestly thinks that people, randomly on the Internet, with all of this content, find what it is that they want to watch, or does she think it is the platforms that are deciding what to put at the top of the feed, what Canadians should watch next, what maybe appeals to people. It is the platforms that are making those decisions. It is the platforms that are wielding that power. It is our job as legislators to write laws to protect Canadians, including Canadians who work in the arts and culture sector.

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Context: House Hansard - 173 - Mar/27/23

Ms. Lisa Hepfner (Hamilton Mountain, Lib.)

Mar/27/23 11:04:48 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-11

Madam Speaker, I would put the member's last question back to him and ask whether he trusts platforms to decide for Canadians what they watch, rather than the government.

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Context: House Hansard - 173 - Mar/27/23

Ms. Lisa Hepfner (Hamilton Mountain, Lib.)

Mar/27/23 11:19:23 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-11

Madam Speaker, could the member opposite tell me whether he thinks he is getting all these hundreds of emails about Bill C-11 because of all the misinformation about the legislation that is being perpetrated by the Conservatives?

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Context: House Hansard - 173 - Mar/27/23

Ms. Lisa Hepfner (Hamilton Mountain, Lib.)

Mar/27/23 11:52:14 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-11

Madam Speaker, I would like to ask the hon. member opposite how making Canadian content more discoverable online limits the choices in what we watch.

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