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Hey there! Sometimes you have a good day, and that was captured last year in an interview with Senator Pamela Wallin on the subject of the then Bill C-10, now reintroduced as Bill C11, the update to the Broadcasting Act. The issues are exactly the same.
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Freedom of speech, censorship, what the Internet accomplished and why the Broadcasting model seeks to destroy it. No innovation without permission.
The CRTC recently reproved Radio Canada for discussing Les Negres Blancs d'Amerique, an anti-capitalist and anti-English tract of the 1960s. Apparently Radio Canada should not have mentioned the title even in the French language. Only two Commissioners dissented, pointing out that the Constitutional right to free speech might be involved, a point totally ignored by the other Commissioners.
The Trudeau government’s plans to regulate the global internet and interfere with Canadians’ freedom of expression continues to confuse the legislation’s proponents.
While opponents to the Online Streaming Act (Bill C-11) are clear that the CRTC's authority over the online world will restrict citizens’ ability to communicate without restriction, Parliamentary hearings this week elicited the deep incoherence of its defenders.
That is not true.
A loaded gun is not intended to be used for murder, but it remains a dangerous weapon. Likewise, the direction of a car is better determined by the way the wheels are pointed than by the turn signals. History has shown that the CRTC will regulate up to the last millimeter of its statutory authority.
Lipstick on the same old pig. I will let Peter Menzies say it for me.
There has been a lot of talk about liberty lately. Some, like those in the truckers’ convoys and blockades, want a lot more of it. Others, startled at the prospect of mingling with the unvaccinated and unmasked, want less of it, as does the Trudeau government, which on Feb. 14 invoked the Emergencies Act.
Timothy Denton's Blog Legislative Review: Telecom and Broadcasting Acts
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