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Member of the panel of chairs for the legislative committees

Ken Hardie

  • Member of Parliament
  • Member of the panel of chairs for the legislative committees
  • Liberal
  • Fleetwood—Port Kells
  • British Columbia
  • Voting Attendance: 67%
  • Expenses Last Quarter: $140,090.09

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Context: House Hansard - 69 - May/11/22
Mr. Ken Hardie
  • May/11/22 6:45:27 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-11 
Madam Speaker, I think the hon. member misunderstands what net neutrality is. The notion came up that the network providers, basically the people who allow the streaming, would constrain access to bandwidth unless more money was paid to get more bandwidth. This would certainly choke off the ability of content providers to stream, let us say, movies, etc., unless they ponied up the money to get the bandwidth to do it. That is what was meant by net neutrality. The government has been firmly onside that everybody deserves the same treatment by those platforms, so that any content put into the platform would be treated equitably and equally across all potential users.
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Context: House Hansard - 48 - Mar/29/22
Mr. Ken Hardie (Fleetwood—Port Kells, Lib.)
  • Mar/29/22 5:27:50 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-11 
Madam Speaker, I listen to the debate today as somebody who went through the first Canadian content regulations. I was on the air, and if I play Anne Murray's Snowbird one more time I think my head will explode. That was the point. What we did on the radio or on standard television was present a very linear stream of programming, so we would get this one and then this one, and the only choice people had was to watch or turn to another channel. This is where I want the member to kind of reflect. If I go on to Netflix, there is an endless number of tiles that I can select from. Some of them should be Canadian, because I am a Canadian and I deserve to at least have the opportunity to know that my stories are being told. To create content and not let people know it is there is like winking at somebody in the dark. I would ask my hon. colleague this. Can we not just say that there is a real benefit to at least letting people know this material exists while they have an infinite—
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