Global National: March 27, 2023 | AUDITOR GENERAL ON 3.5B foreign aid spending -=NO TRACKING for women and girls

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Ottawa thanks we'll have live coverage

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of this year's federal budget our

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special begins tomorrow at 4 Eastern one

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Pacific here on global you can also

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watch online at globalnews.ca and on our

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other streaming platforms Canada's

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auditor general has found big gaps in

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how the federal government promises to

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spend money and what it actually

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delivered in three important areas she

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found Global Affairs Canada cannot say

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with any confidence if the 3.5 billion

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dollars year it spends to improve the

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health of women and girls in developing

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countries is actually doing that

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it is imperative that Global Affairs

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Canada immediately act to improve its

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information management practices and

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Reporting on results

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the auditor general also found the

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government's efforts to connect people

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in rural areas and Indigenous

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communities to high-speed internet are

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falling short David Aiken reports

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the good news is the government has met

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its own Target to provide high-speed

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internet connections to 90 percent of

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the country the bad news as the auditor

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general pointed out Monday is that just

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60 percent of those in Rural and remote

Opposition Motion TELFORD Opposition Motion (foreign interference)

 12 PM MONDAY 20th March 2023

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Opposition Motion

Instruction to the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics (foreign interference)

 

That, given the many reports of foreign interference in Canada’s democratic processes by, or on behalf of, the communist regime in Beijing, the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics be empowered and instructed to study all aspects of foreign interference in relation to the 2019 and 2021 general elections, including preparations for those elections, and, to assist the committee with this study,(a) Katie Telford, Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister, be ordered to appear before the committee as a witness, for three hours on her own, under oath or solemn affirmation, at a date and time, no later than April 14, 2023, to be fixed by the Chair of the Committee;(b) the following individuals be invited to appear as witnesses before the committee on dates and times to be fixed by the Chair of the Committee, but no later than Friday, May 19, 2023,(i) the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, to appear on her own for two hours,(ii) the President of the King’s Privy Council for Canada and Minister of Emergency Preparedness, to appear on his own for two hours,(iii) the Minister of Public Safety, to appear on his own for two hours,(iv) Morris Rosenberg, author of the assessment of the Critical Election Incident Public Protocol for the 2021 general election, to appear on his own for two hours,(v) Janice Charette, Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary to the Cabinet, to appear on her own for two hours,(vi) a panel consisting of the 2019 and 2021 national campaign directors for each recognized party in the House,(vii) a panel consisting of the security-cleared party representatives to the Security and Intelligence Threats to Elections during the 2019 and 2021 general elections,(viii) a panel consisting of the Honourable Ian Shugart, Greta Bossenmaier, Nathalie Drouin, Gina Wilson and Marta Morgan, members of the Critical Election Incident Public Protocol Panel during the 2019 general election,(ix) James Judd, author of the assessment of the Critical Election Incident Public Protocol for the 2019 general election, to appear on his own,(x) a panel consisting of David Morrison, François Daigle, Rob Stewart and Marta Morgan, members of the Critical Election Incident Public Protocol Panel during the 2021 general election,(xi) David Vigneault, Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, to appear on his own for two hours,(xii) John McCall MacBain former Chair of the Board of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, (xiii) Élise Comtois, former Executive Director of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation,(xiv) the Hon. John McCallum, former Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China, to appear on his own for one hour, (xv) Jennifer May, Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China, to appear on her own for one hour;(c) for the purposes of this study, it be an instruction to the committee that,(i) it hold at least one additional meeting, for a duration of three hours, during each House sitting week concerning this study, (ii) it hold at least one meeting during the adjournment period beginning March 31, 2023, if necessary, for the purposes of paragraph (a),(iii) any proceedings before the committee in relation to any motion concerning non-compliance with paragraph (a) of this order shall, if not previously disposed of, be interrupted upon the earlier of the completion of four hours of consideration or one sitting week after the motion was first moved and, in turn, every question necessary for the disposal of the motion shall be put forthwith and successively, without further debate or amendment;(d) for the purposes of this study, the committee shall, notwithstanding paragraph (p) of the special order adopted on Thursday, June 23, 2022, have the first priority for the use of House resources for committee meetings; and(e) the evidence and documentation adduced by the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs during the current session in relation to its study of foreign election interference shall be deemed to have been laid upon the table and referred to the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics.

 

M.P. Melissa Lantsman Speaks Against Trudeau's Censorship Bill l BILL - C11

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order yourself a burger but instead of a

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burger they serve you a salad and when

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you ask the server why you got a salad

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they tell you it's because of a new

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government rule salads have to account

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for the certain percentage of meals

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eaten in Canada and that's ridiculous

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you might say and you wanted a burger so

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you should get a burger nobody would

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accept something like this when they

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went to a restaurant so why would they

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accept it when they browse the internet

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that is the essence of Bill c-11 a

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solution looking for a problem that

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doesn't exist and the latest attempt

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from these liberals to stick their nose

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in where it doesn't belong and limit the

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freedoms of Canadians and I would hope

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that the member from Louis Saint Laurent

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will share a burger with me because I'm

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going to share my time with him

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so right now Canadians get to pick

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things that they get to see online

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through their very own viewing habits

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their searches their choices Madam

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speaker but if bill c-11 passes the

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videos they watch on YouTube the movies

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they stream on Netflix and the podcast

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they listen to on Spotify would all be

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subject to government regulations

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requiring the promotion of certain

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content they would deem the content that

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you can and can watch of course they

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cannot explain what that content is they

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haven't answered that question but by

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putting the rules for what this bill is

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calling Canadian content in the hands of

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government and unelected unaccountable

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bureaucrats the Liberals would be free

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to amplify the voices they like and

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silence the ones they don't you know why

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because they appoint the body that does

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that because they appoint the head of

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the crtc without telling us what kind of

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content of course

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let's face it

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C11 is just another attempt to to

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drastically expand the size and scope of

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government to control what Canadians

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think to limit their fundamental rights

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and freedoms of what they get to see

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online no government should ever be

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given the additional powers to censor

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and regulate what Canadians say and see

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but especially on the entire infinite

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unending internet the bill states that

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any content that generates Revenue yes

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even cat videos will be subject to

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regulation that will be under the

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control of the crtc

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and yet it lays out uh it lays out the

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very path for hiring the internet Tsar

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that would do that that would give the

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purview of that to somebody else to an

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unelected bureaucrat appointed of course

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by a government that wants the control

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now this is a debate about amendments

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and specifically with regard to the

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issue of censoring user generated

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content that's what regular people put

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online

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the government was really never going to

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consider that Amendment because they

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took it out of the bill to begin with

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and I'll tell you why here's the

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response to trying to get user generated

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content out of the mix it's in amendment

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number three it's part of what we're

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discussing here the government

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respectfully disagrees with amendment

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number three because it would affect the

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governor and Council ability to publicly

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consult on and issue a policy direction

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to the crtc to appropriately scope the

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regulation of social media services with

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respect to their distribution of

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commercial programs as well as prevent

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the broadcasting system for adapting to

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technological changes over time that's

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that's their response the rationale

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behind the rejection for Content

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creators is finally like they finally

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said the quiet part out loud it's right

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here

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for the government that claims that

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user-generated content was never going

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to be part of this bill or won't be part

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of this bill they took out that

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Amendment and then they rejected the the

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fact that the amendment would have been

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put back in the bill it says the

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opposite right in the rationale the

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government wants the power to direct the

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crtc on user content today and they want

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the power to do it in the future

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regulatory power overuser content is

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confirmed in that explanation it covers

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YouTube videos podcasts and any other

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content on platforms we don't even know

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exists yet because that's what adapting

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to technological changes means they've

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regulated something that doesn't even

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exist yet so there you have it a

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statement that you heard from the

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minister

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on this point is the exact opposite of

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his response in the house his response

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in committee his response on television

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which makes it the actual opposite of

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the truth

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he will also ensure that we are the only

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country

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the only Democratic country in the world

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where this is actually a thing where

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we're the only country to engage in this

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form of regulation on things that you or

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I would put on the internet it leaves

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absolutely no doubt in the minds of

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anybody who has read this legislation

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people like Margaret Atwood people like

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Senator David Richard David Adams

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Richards the purveyors of cat videos

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from coast to coast absolutely no doubt

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that this is their plan they just said

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the quiet part out loud platforms are in

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and user-generated content is in and

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anything else is simply untrue we have

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so many philosophical issues with this

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bill but I can I can stand here all day

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and talk about them but what I want to

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touch on is some very practical ones

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like the Mandate of the crtc 2.5

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quintillion bytes of data

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is added to the internet every day every

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single day do you really believe that

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the liberal government or that any

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bureaucracy especially a bureaucracy

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with this government can handle the

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responsibility of regulating that they

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can't get you a passport in a reasonable

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amount of time they can't do what

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they're saying they can do what about

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the idea that the government needs to

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save an industry which of course is

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ludicrous the minister says that

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investment in Canadian production uh

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that would further our culture is

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somehow in need of his rescue again

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that's the opposite of an actual fact

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where my colleagues here will tell me

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that I'm engaging in disinformation but

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it's just not true huge Investments are

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being made and if you looked a little

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farther than where they were traditional

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broadcasters or where they've

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traditionally been made or if you've

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looked a little further or talked to

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anybody else other than the unions who

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would lose control over that funding you

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would know that that statement is not

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true the Motion Picture Association of

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Canada told a committee in the Senate

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that they spent over five billion

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dollars a year in investment in one year

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in 2021 that's more than the billion

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dollars that the minister is talking

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about saying that C11 would bring in 5

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billion is more than a billion and

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that's in a single year by a single

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industry Association

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so what about the fact that Canadian

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creators haven't asked for this and in

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fact many of them have spoken out

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against it those are the ones that have

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had tremendous amounts of success the

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ones that are are going to be held back

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by this the creators in this country

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that without government have reached

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unimaginable house Heights both within

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Canada and especially outside of Canada

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they've been ignored it isn't about

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culture and it certainly isn't about

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funding it's about control and they're

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doing anything possible to increase the

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size of the Canadian government and

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reduce the freedoms of what you see

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online of what ordinary Canadians see

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and put online ordinary Canadian

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citizens

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and the government will stop at nothing

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to do more of that no matter how much

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the facts don't line up no matter how

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much they can't answer questions about

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what Canadian content is who will

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regulate it or just simply mislead this

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house in telling them in telling us that

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the crtc has no role in this

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the Liberals jammed this bill through

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the House of Commons once already but

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the Senate found so many issues with it

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that they conducted the longest

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committee study ever and on a piece of

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legislation proposed 26 amendments

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that's of course after the Liberals took

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out the amendment that would leave out

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user-generated content while telling the

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Canadian public that that wasn't true

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but just like that just like putting

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lipstick on a pig it leaves you with a

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pig

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putting amendments into bill c-11 just

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leaves us with C11 a bill that at its

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core

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restricts and infringes and penalizes a

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bill that can only be fixed by voting it

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down by making sure that it never sees

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the light of day a conservative

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government in the in this country would

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have never introduced it and of members

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of this house make the mistake of

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passing it we will repeal it

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we don't need a government deciding what

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we can and cannot watch we don't need a

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government to pick the winners and the

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losers we don't need a government to get

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more involved in the lives of Canadians

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they're involved enough and we see how

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that's going in this country we need a

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small government that makes room for

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bigger citizens where government is the

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servant and we are or Canadians are the

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Masters Mr Speaker we're upholding the

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Heritage the Canadians have given the

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world that successful creators have put

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out there we're here today to stand

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against Bill c-11 a bill that goes

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against the principles of Freedom the

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values that have been the Bedrock of our

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country for 150 years the Heritage that

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this Heritage Minister should in fact be

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protecting freedom is the very opposite

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of this bill he shouldn't be focusing on

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arbitrary rules and if he did he should

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be able to at least explain them in this

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house in committee or on television he

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should instead be focused on growing the

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power of people right here in Canada and

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letting them decide what they can see on

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