All members of the Liberal Party, the New Democrats, and the Bloc Quebecois voted against a Conservative amendment to Bill C-10 that would have created clearer stipulations that would count user-generated content as an exception from Bill C-10's sweeping powers.
Conservative amendment to restore user generated content protections in Bill C-10 is defeated. Liberals, NDP and Bloc all vote against.
— Michael Geist (@mgeist) May 31, 2021
The moment came during a Heritage Committee meeting on Monday, with the Conservatives now focused on ensuring that the bill does not pass without the exception for user generated content.
The Bloc and the NDP have both expressed interest at voting "yea" for the controversial bill.
Conservative MP @KevinWaugh_CPC makes two key points about Bill C-10. First, original bill did cover aspects of Youtube. Second, that $830 million that @s_guilbeault claims will be generated by Bill C-10?
— Michael Geist (@mgeist) May 31, 2021
Canadian consumers will ultimately pay those costs https://t.co/3o8GuHeld0
The bill has already been condemned by former chairs of the CRTC such as Peter Menzies, who has called the bill an assault on Canadians' freedoms.
Additionally, an expansive list of respected tech critics was released last week, calling on the Trudeau Liberals to "stop harming the Internet, and the freedoms and aspirations of every individual in this country, and our knowledge economy through overreaching regulatory policies that will have significant, yet unintended consequences for the free and open Internet in Canada."
Government says Bill C-10 critics don’t want to regulate tech. False. This @ISOCCanada open letter expressing concern about the bill and gov internet policy signed by some the sharpest tech critics in Canada including @biancawylie @nasma_ahmed @RonDeibert https://t.co/VQcAZXo2Er pic.twitter.com/006m4801SY
— Michael Geist (@mgeist) May 17, 2021
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