OTTAWA—When Parliament returns Monday from its winter break, it will do so at a pivotal time: the week marking 100 days since the Liberal government received its new mandate in October.
“I’ve spoken to my counterparts from other parties and stakeholders from across the country, to understand what their needs and priorities are. Our government is moving as quickly as possible on our three priority bills.” But the bill ran into a series of snags. One of the largest occurred after the Liberals moved to axe a section of the bill that excluded from the rules any content created by social media users. That triggered free speech concerns from Conservatives and other critics that everyday users might see individual posts scrutinized.
Since then, Rodriguez’s office has met several times with YouTube representatives and other stakeholders connected to the file, along with his opposition counterparts to discuss the new legislation. “In many cases, was shared by online platforms which received traffic, views, and money from advertisers for that content. There is a clear market imbalance,” Rodriguez said in his statement.
While Rodriguez has been tasked with swiftly introducing the bill, the legislation is also a central priority for the NDP.“For more than six years that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been in power, instead of ensuring a fair sharing of advertising revenues between the digital giants and our media, the Liberal government chosen to protect the profits of Facebook and Google,” he wrote.
The federal Conservatives did not address, when asked for comment, how it would approach such legislation once tabled.The last of the three internet-driven bills the Liberals have promised to introduce this week is legislation to “combat serious forms of harmful online content, specifically hate speech, terrorist content, content that incites violence, child sexual abuse material and the non-consensual distribution of intimate images.
Michael Geist, the Canada Research Chair in internet and e-commerce law at the University of Ottawa, has been compiling his own list of submissions from those who took part in the process.
Good call
ClickBait for subscriptions.. So like everyone else I'll just comment on the description of this attempt at forced subscription... Like everything else, the liberal_party solution to any problem is usually worse than the problem itself. cdnpoli Liberal
Hate speech? Sounds like JustinTrudeau needs to be censored