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order yourself a burger but instead of a
burger they serve you a salad and when
you ask the server why you got a salad
they tell you it's because of a new
government rule salads have to account
for the certain percentage of meals
eaten in Canada and that's ridiculous
you might say and you wanted a burger so
you should get a burger nobody would
accept something like this when they
went to a restaurant so why would they
accept it when they browse the internet
that is the essence of Bill c-11 a
solution looking for a problem that
doesn't exist and the latest attempt
from these liberals to stick their nose
in where it doesn't belong and limit the
freedoms of Canadians and I would hope
that the member from Louis Saint Laurent
will share a burger with me because I'm
going to share my time with him
so right now Canadians get to pick
things that they get to see online
through their very own viewing habits
their searches their choices Madam
speaker but if bill c-11 passes the
videos they watch on YouTube the movies
they stream on Netflix and the podcast
they listen to on Spotify would all be
subject to government regulations
requiring the promotion of certain
content they would deem the content that
you can and can watch of course they
cannot explain what that content is they
haven't answered that question but by
putting the rules for what this bill is
calling Canadian content in the hands of
government and unelected unaccountable
bureaucrats the Liberals would be free
to amplify the voices they like and
silence the ones they don't you know why
because they appoint the body that does
that because they appoint the head of
the crtc without telling us what kind of
content of course
let's face it
C11 is just another attempt to to
drastically expand the size and scope of
government to control what Canadians
think to limit their fundamental rights
and freedoms of what they get to see
online no government should ever be
given the additional powers to censor
and regulate what Canadians say and see
but especially on the entire infinite
unending internet the bill states that
any content that generates Revenue yes
even cat videos will be subject to
regulation that will be under the
control of the crtc
and yet it lays out uh it lays out the
very path for hiring the internet Tsar
that would do that that would give the
purview of that to somebody else to an
unelected bureaucrat appointed of course
by a government that wants the control
now this is a debate about amendments
and specifically with regard to the
issue of censoring user generated
content that's what regular people put
online
the government was really never going to
consider that Amendment because they
took it out of the bill to begin with
and I'll tell you why here's the
response to trying to get user generated
content out of the mix it's in amendment
number three it's part of what we're
discussing here the government
respectfully disagrees with amendment
number three because it would affect the
governor and Council ability to publicly
consult on and issue a policy direction
to the crtc to appropriately scope the
regulation of social media services with
respect to their distribution of
commercial programs as well as prevent
the broadcasting system for adapting to
technological changes over time that's
that's their response the rationale
behind the rejection for Content
creators is finally like they finally
said the quiet part out loud it's right
here
for the government that claims that
user-generated content was never going
to be part of this bill or won't be part
of this bill they took out that
Amendment and then they rejected the the
fact that the amendment would have been
put back in the bill it says the
opposite right in the rationale the
government wants the power to direct the
crtc on user content today and they want
the power to do it in the future
regulatory power overuser content is
confirmed in that explanation it covers
YouTube videos podcasts and any other
content on platforms we don't even know
exists yet because that's what adapting
to technological changes means they've
regulated something that doesn't even
exist yet so there you have it a
statement that you heard from the
minister
on this point is the exact opposite of
his response in the house his response
in committee his response on television
which makes it the actual opposite of
the truth
he will also ensure that we are the only
country
the only Democratic country in the world
where this is actually a thing where
we're the only country to engage in this
form of regulation on things that you or
I would put on the internet it leaves
absolutely no doubt in the minds of
anybody who has read this legislation
people like Margaret Atwood people like
Senator David Richard David Adams
Richards the purveyors of cat videos
from coast to coast absolutely no doubt
that this is their plan they just said
the quiet part out loud platforms are in
and user-generated content is in and
anything else is simply untrue we have
so many philosophical issues with this
bill but I can I can stand here all day
and talk about them but what I want to
touch on is some very practical ones
like the Mandate of the crtc 2.5
quintillion bytes of data
is added to the internet every day every
single day do you really believe that
the liberal government or that any
bureaucracy especially a bureaucracy
with this government can handle the
responsibility of regulating that they
can't get you a passport in a reasonable
amount of time they can't do what
they're saying they can do what about
the idea that the government needs to
save an industry which of course is
ludicrous the minister says that
investment in Canadian production uh
that would further our culture is
somehow in need of his rescue again
that's the opposite of an actual fact
where my colleagues here will tell me
that I'm engaging in disinformation but
it's just not true huge Investments are
being made and if you looked a little
farther than where they were traditional
broadcasters or where they've
traditionally been made or if you've
looked a little further or talked to
anybody else other than the unions who
would lose control over that funding you
would know that that statement is not
true the Motion Picture Association of
Canada told a committee in the Senate
that they spent over five billion
dollars a year in investment in one year
in 2021 that's more than the billion
dollars that the minister is talking
about saying that C11 would bring in 5
billion is more than a billion and
that's in a single year by a single
industry Association
so what about the fact that Canadian
creators haven't asked for this and in
fact many of them have spoken out
against it those are the ones that have
had tremendous amounts of success the
ones that are are going to be held back
by this the creators in this country
that without government have reached
unimaginable house Heights both within
Canada and especially outside of Canada
they've been ignored it isn't about
culture and it certainly isn't about
funding it's about control and they're
doing anything possible to increase the
size of the Canadian government and
reduce the freedoms of what you see
online of what ordinary Canadians see
and put online ordinary Canadian
citizens
and the government will stop at nothing
to do more of that no matter how much
the facts don't line up no matter how
much they can't answer questions about
what Canadian content is who will
regulate it or just simply mislead this
house in telling them in telling us that
the crtc has no role in this
the Liberals jammed this bill through
the House of Commons once already but
the Senate found so many issues with it
that they conducted the longest
committee study ever and on a piece of
legislation proposed 26 amendments
that's of course after the Liberals took
out the amendment that would leave out
user-generated content while telling the
Canadian public that that wasn't true
but just like that just like putting
lipstick on a pig it leaves you with a
pig
putting amendments into bill c-11 just
leaves us with C11 a bill that at its
core
restricts and infringes and penalizes a
bill that can only be fixed by voting it
down by making sure that it never sees
the light of day a conservative
government in the in this country would
have never introduced it and of members
of this house make the mistake of
passing it we will repeal it
we don't need a government deciding what
we can and cannot watch we don't need a
government to pick the winners and the
losers we don't need a government to get
more involved in the lives of Canadians
they're involved enough and we see how
that's going in this country we need a
small government that makes room for
bigger citizens where government is the
servant and we are or Canadians are the
Masters Mr Speaker we're upholding the
Heritage the Canadians have given the
world that successful creators have put
out there we're here today to stand
against Bill c-11 a bill that goes
against the principles of Freedom the
values that have been the Bedrock of our
country for 150 years the Heritage that
this Heritage Minister should in fact be
protecting freedom is the very opposite
of this bill he shouldn't be focusing on
arbitrary rules and if he did he should
be able to at least explain them in this
house in committee or on television he
should instead be focused on growing the
power of people right here in Canada and
letting them decide what they can see on
