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Michelle Ferreri

  • Member of Parliament
  • Member of Parliament
  • Conservative
  • Peterborough—Kawartha
  • Ontario
  • Voting Attendance: 67%
  • Expenses Last Quarter: $106,196.43

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Context: House Hansard - 167 - Mar/9/23
Ms. Michelle Ferreri (Peterborough—Kawartha, CPC)
  • Mar/9/23 2:13:47 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-11 
Mr. Speaker, “Whoever controls the media, controls the mind” is a quote from musician Jim Morrison. Bill C-11 aims to do exactly that. This far-overreaching bill gives control to the government to decide what online media is and is not shown to Canadians. Famed Canadian author Margaret Atwood said it best, “All you have to do is read some biographies of writers writing in the Soviet Union and the degrees of censorship they had to go through - government bureaucrats.... So it is creeping totalitarianism if governments are telling creators what to create.” Art is subjective. The Liberal government will stop at nothing to control what Canadians see online. If Bill C-11 passes, it kicks open the door to government censorship, empowering the Liberals to strengthen voices they deem good and silence those they deem bad. Conservatives trust Canadians to choose what they want to watch online. Enough is enough. Let us stop with the controlling legislation and kill Bill C-11.
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