Bill C-11 updates the Broadcasting Act to require streaming platforms to follow Cancon rules.  Shrouded in secrecy by force, dozens of amendments to #BillC11 were defeated or passed without reading them into the public record.

MPs have rushed through over 100 amendments to the online streaming bill to meet a deadline imposed by the government, prompting accusations of secrecy and legislative bungling.

Liberal gatekeepers and censors want to control what you see and say online.

I won't let them.

As Prime Minister, I will introduce a Free Speech Act to defend your charter right to freedom of expression on the Internet. pic.twitter.com/10SPOVzzum

— Pierre Poilievre (@PierrePoilievre) June 15, 2022

There were heated exchanges between MPs at the heritage committee on Tuesday night as they voted on dozens of amendments to the bill, which would update the Broadcasting Act to include streaming platforms.

MPs on the committee, who sat until after midnight voting on amendments, say they were only made aware of their contents on Tuesday morning.

The heritage committee was given until Tuesday night to debate amendments to the bill after the government imposed a time-allocation motion to push it through the Commons committee stage.

Many of the amendments, including those proposed by the government, were voted on without debate, meaning that their contents were not described to members of the public watching the committee.

Conservatives Criticizes the Government for Shutting Down Debate on Bill C-11#StopCensorship pic.twitter.com/hjs68orv6f

— Canadian Riley (@TiaRileyCanada) June 17, 2022

But senators have signaled they will not be pressured to speed up consideration of the bill, claiming they have thwarted government ploys to push it through the upper house.

The online streaming bill, which the government rushed through the Commons heritage committee on Tuesday, is now subject to a pre-study by the Senate committee on transport and communications.

The Senate committee’s chair, Conservative Sen. Leo Housakos, accused the government of planning to “ram this legislation through without proper parliamentary scrutiny.”

Many feel that the real intent is to crack down on opinions Ottawa considers misinformation.  Expressions of opinions that aren’t supported by facts could soon be ordered removed from social media in Canada if the chief architects of the nation’s nascent Online Harms legislation have their way.

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association worried that the government’s plans would turn online platforms such as Facebook and Twitter into “agents of law enforcement, creating mandatory reporting and preservation obligations that may expand over time and significantly impact the privacy rights of Canadians.” The inclusion of CSIS in the process was, it noted, “of particular concern.”

I thought this bill CLM it, which would give the CRTC the ability to determine what you see and say online, it would give privilege to certain types of content that would then appear in your newsfeed and on your YouTube channel. Because of manipulating the algorithms, using bureaucratic powers behind the scenes. These powers exists nowhere else in the free world. Furthermore, Trudeau now has a proposal to bring in something called a digital Safety Commissioner. This is someone who would have the ability to take down content that he doesn’t like on the internet.

Now, let’s be clear, about you get a lot worse if this passes, in fact, they had an online consultation and the Twitter Corporation, not somebody’s individual tweet, but the company itself said that these powers remind the company of what already exists in North Korea and Iran. Right? That is what Trudeau wants to institute here in Canada. It shouldn’t surprise anyone he said that he admires the basic Chinese communist dictatorship, right? That is the mentality that goes in to these things. And why why did you want to do that course he’s afraid of criticism. He doesn’t want to debate because he knows can’t win a debate.

In fact, he’s terrified of debating me in the morning figured that instead, he has tried to censor me and other people like me by shutting down social media platforms so that every piece of debate has to go through the liberal media in Ottawa, which he has bought off and which are loyal entirely to him so that they can continue to just regurgitate his talking points rather than letting the people speak freely. Ladies and gentlemen, I pledge to stand up and fight back against C 11. And the digital Safety Commissioner for appeal that law and fire that commissioner and reinstate freedom.