Juno News - Bills C-11 and C-18 should concern all Canadians

00:00:00.000 There are two current bills before Parliament in Canada that are raising alarm bells. The first is

00:00:05.420 Bill C-11 and this is a bill that provides the CRTC with the power to regulate online publishing

00:00:11.120 and require streaming platforms like YouTube and Netflix to show Canadian content more than they

00:00:17.280 do right now. So this bill actually passed third reading in the House which means it's passed

00:00:22.720 through, it was voted, it was approved through the House of Commons and now it's moved on to the

00:00:27.280 Senate, it moved on actually last month in October. The second bill is Bill C-18 and this bill would

00:00:34.560 require tech giants like Facebook and Google to negotiate deals to pay legacy media outlets in

00:00:40.900 order to make their news content available on those platforms. So this bill has passed second reading in

00:00:47.500 the House of Commons and so it's currently before committee still in the House. Unsurprisingly I

00:00:52.820 think both of these bills are terrible ideas and I'm certainly not alone on this. In fact Canadian

00:00:58.660 YouTuber JJ McCullough I highly recommend looking for some of his content, a quick search on Google

00:01:04.580 or YouTube you'll find a ton of it, him speaking out against Bill C-11. Now he's a successful Canadian

00:01:10.660 YouTuber who has reached a good deal of success without any sort of help from government regulation

00:01:18.260 and so he offers some really interesting insights into why Canada just simply does not need this legislation.

00:01:24.660 One of the points he makes is that adding CRTC regulation over online content will actually add

00:01:30.980 quite a barrier to entry for any voice, any Canadian creator wanting to launch a YouTube channel.

00:01:37.620 So there's a lot of boxes you have to check, a lot of hoops essentially that you have to jump through

00:01:42.980 to prove the extent of your Canadian-ness. In fact the idea that we need the government to add

00:01:48.900 all these layers of bureaucracy and get its hand meddling in the YouTube world or

00:01:54.340 in fact any online content creation, it's just so ridiculous because right now there are no barriers

00:02:00.580 to entry for Canadian creators. You can sit in your basement and record a YouTube video, pop it up online

00:02:07.060 and if it's popular, if people enjoy your content then it will be viewed. There are many, many, many

00:02:13.060 successful Canadian content creators and they haven't relied on government to reach that level of success

00:02:17.780 so this law is just simply not needed and in fact it would be counterproductive by creating barriers to

00:02:23.140 entry for new creators.

Juno News - November 08, 2022