Juno News - Trudeau's online censorship bill charges ahead

00:00:00.000 it's quite remarkable what the Trudeau Liberal government did the other night as Canadians

00:00:08.780 slept past midnight passing through legislation in a committee ramming it through forcing it

00:00:14.860 through not letting the amendments be discussed debated on saying we got to be done with this

00:00:19.720 even though there is much more discussion to be had legislation that effectively empowers a

00:00:25.460 government agency to censor the internet to regulate your user-generated content that's what

00:00:31.460 they call it posts that you may put up to TikTok or YouTube doing anything like perhaps criticizing

00:00:37.060 the government and now an agency called the CRTC could be empowered to actually take down your posts

00:00:42.980 and regulate it what on earth is going on here well a lot of top experts in the field have been

00:00:48.480 condemning this this is Bill C-11 it was originally known as Bill C-10 so much criticism against it

00:00:54.620 last year and the liberals said look we hear your concerns and and we'll deal with it we're going

00:00:59.360 to take these difficult parts out and there's a whole bunch of other things in the bill and we'll

00:01:03.100 just keep that stuff leave it at that well then they brought in the bill under the different guys

00:01:07.060 under the different name of Bill C-11 and most of that stuff is still there and the same experts

00:01:11.860 who cried foul a year ago are saying watch out we got a situation here and yet the liberal government

00:01:17.180 just wouldn't take out those aspects that empower them to censor the internet now what's interesting is

00:01:23.140 that the government has said uh don't worry we're not actually going to use these provisions and the

00:01:27.460 chair of the CRTC he has said yeah we're not actually going to do that stuff we don't really

00:01:31.880 need to worry ourselves with all of that so then I guess the expert said oh okay great so just do the

00:01:36.560 amendments and take it out take out the stuff empowering you to regulate user generated content

00:01:41.740 and then we're all good right and then the other stuff you need fine we'll debate it but you know it's

00:01:46.040 not as bad as this stuff but they didn't do it they didn't take out the offending parts and now we're left

00:01:51.940 in a situation where the government has been warned last year and this year this is online censorship

00:01:58.660 and they've actually kind of acknowledged it's problematic and then never got rid of it so they

00:02:05.440 say they're not planning to use it but why don't they remove it then what can help us now what's the

00:02:11.480 next steps in all of this well what they did in this process was they actually took the bill from

00:02:16.040 committee rammed it through committee where the changes are usually made it's going to go to final

00:02:20.560 reading in the house of commons it's believed that the ndp will support it and then well it's

00:02:25.100 passed in the house of commons but it goes to the senate and it'll be up to the senate to get rid of

00:02:30.040 this bill to completely trash it because it's so flawed to do major changes to it or well maybe to

00:02:36.200 pass it as is but if they do well that would be a big problem that would show that the upper chamber

00:02:41.160 is not the chamber of sober second thought that it was made out to be and that all those recent new

00:02:46.100 independent appointments by justin trudeau are perhaps no not so independent after all so we'll

00:02:51.400 see what happens but right now online censorship while it's creeping closer and closer to being

00:02:55.700 on the books and only the senate can save us now

Juno News - June 16, 2022