Controversial Bill C-11 Became Law

Yesterday, February 2, 2023, the Canadian Senate passed the very controversial Bill C-11, “An Act to amend the Broadcasting Act”{a.k.a. “ The Censorship Act”} and made related and consequential amendments to other Acts. Bill C-11 was introduced by the liberal government led by Justin Trudeau back in 2022.

Bill C-11 gives new power to Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission{CRTC},  including the express authority to regulate online streaming services.

Within the Bill, the politicians introduced new terminology and created a new category of a regulated entity:

“online undertaking”- an undertaking for the transmission or retransmission of programs over the Internet for reception by the public by means of broadcasting receiving apparatus, and

“programming control”– control over the selection of programs for transmission, but does not include control over the selection of a programming service for retransmission.

The CRTC will also be given the authority to require an online undertaking to make financial expenditures to support the production of Canadian programming, and impose “conditions of service” on all broadcasting undertakings, including online undertakings, related to, among other things, the proportion of Canadian programs they distribute. The CRTC has also been given the authority to oversee the “discoverability” of these programs and the manner in which they are presented for selection to the public, and require, without terms or conditions, a person carrying on an online undertaking that transmits programming services of other broadcasting undertakings to carry programming services specified by the CRTC.

The Bill also allows for new penalties, for every person who contravenes broadcasting without the license, for an individual to a fine of not more than $25,000, and for a corporation $250,000, for each day that the offence continues. There are also administrative monetary penalties, of up to $15 million for every person who commits a violation under specific paragraphs of this bill.

https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/44-1/bill/C-11/third-reading

The mainstream media is “celebrating” and sharing information about how the Liberal government withdrew a series of amendments to pending legislation Bill C-21, an Act to amend certain Acts and to make certain consequential amendments{firearms}, but there is silence about Bill C-11, that was passed by the Senate.

   The passing of Bill C-11 is an unprecedented moment in Canadian history: politicians, who should be serving the people, enacted laws, which will limit, control, and persecute the free speech of all Canadians. The irony is that the CRTC is an agency under The Department of Canadian Heritage, which should promote human rights and freedom.

And Bill C-21? Nobody is even mentioning this Bill should be repealed from its base, and how harmful it is for the people in this country. Instead, “liberals” will be celebrating the Bill passes another obstacle, and “conservatives” will be happy, that government made a concession. In reality, new pernicious legislation was created against all Canadians, and debates in the parliament have proven, that the parliament it is just a political cabaret, and they all follow the same agenda.

DB