On November 18, 2018, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau planned “An act to amend the broadcasting act and to make consequential amendments to other acts” this means the Canadian government would control all media. But because of Covid-19, this was moved to another date. On June 2022, Bill C-11 went true in the Canadian parliament and became law in Canada.
Bill c-11 will let CRTC(Canadian radio-television and Telecommunications Commission) controls the media posted in all of Canada. The point of this is to have cleaner content on the Canadian internet. C-11 is all about controlling what is posted, Anything that has to do with Youtube, Tiktok, Spotify, and more media that can influence people. The idea of this is for people to have more Canadian content from media outside of the TV. As more people don’t watch TV news at home and rely on gathering media from other sources the Canadian government wants to regulate people that upload would have to include some Canadian content/information. Anything to do with racism or feminism would be blocked from being posted or listened to. CRTC also has the power to impose a financial penalty for people and businesses that would post something that is against the law in Canada. Many YouTubers made videos that this law made them have to move out of the country to continue their channels most of them say “that it is not fair that they have to implement something that they don’t believe is right”.
Is this something we should implement everywhere in the world to have better, cleaner content for people? Can you agree with this new law that has been forced in Canada on the people because of safety?
I see this as another method of control over people. I don’t see how there is any more freedom in Canada after this law. Where the freedom of speech that Canada and America were known as. (Not going to include America in this because they’re not part of this law) but why is Canada not letting people be able to show and say their beliefs? We all know the problems we have today, but not letting people say what they will let you say is the answer to the elimination of our society’s problems? What if this would be used to least say change your mind about someone? Or give you fake news? All of their types of control for “our safety” never work. why would this?
Source:
https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/csj-sjc/pl/charter-charte/c11_2.html
https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/opc-news/news-and-announcements/2022/op-c11_addario/
Makes sense. This new law is but another way of establishing tougher control over the population. It is a way of kind of “seamlessly” moving from capitalism to communist society. Cruel control over what people see, do, think, say etc. Might be that the Canadian government wants just a bit more patriotism to empose patriotic ideas to the population so that they are more inclined to stay there and pay taxes 🙂