The designer of this awful bill walks back on so much it when caught out:
Months before the Liberal government removed a section of Bill C-10 in a controversial amendment, Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault was told by officials within his own department that it was an “important limitation” on regulatory powers.
A briefing note prepared for Guilbeault in December 2020, and obtained through access to information, outlined which online services would be covered by Bill C-10. It pointed to section 2.1, which excludes individual users from regulation by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission and remains in the bill, and to section 4.1, which excluded their content. Section 4.1 was removed by the government in late April, a move critics said was an attack on free expression. ...
On Thursday, the results of that charter review were released, which concluded there are adequate limits on CRTC’s powers over user-generated content. Nathalie Drouin, the deputy minister at the department of justice, told the committee Friday the bill as amended, where the CRTC’s powers are limited to discoverability, doesn’t affect freedom of expression.
She pointed to previous comments by Guilbeault that the decision to remove 4.1 “wasn’t made in a vacuum,” and the intent was always to table further amendments. “I think it’s important not to read the bill just as the first amendment that this committee adopted, but in light of the other amendment,” she said.
So, just nod at whatever cover-up comes one's way.
Right ...
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Canadian Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault won’t say whether Bill C-10 will give the CRTC the power to regulate the algorithms that decide what you see on your Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.
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Controversial government amendments to allow regulation of social media content do not affect free expression rights, says the justice minister.
Yes, about that:
Now we know why @S_Guilbeault wouldn’t answer the question about why Section 4.1 was in Bill C-10. His *own officials* told him it provided an important limitation to ensure the CRTC cannot regulate the audio or video communications of individuals. https://t.co/8lbMLhaUo5
— Michael Geist (@mgeist) May 15, 2021
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