Juno News - November 08, 2022


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

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Bill C-11 and Bill C-18 are two bills that would give the CRTC the power to regulate online content in Canada and require streaming platforms like YouTube and Netflix to show Canadian content more than they do right now. Unsurprisingly, I think both of these bills are terrible ideas and I'm certainly not alone on this. In fact, Canadian YouTuber JJ McCullough has been very vocal in his opposition to both of them.

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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 1.00
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 0.97
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.