There is a reason why Canada keeps getting referenced as being on a “totalitarian” path. One incident after another points to a pattern of creeping totalitarianism under Justin Trudeau. Recently, it was Trudeau’s gun sales ban, while lowering sentences for serious gun crimes; and then Trudeau said in an interview that Canadians have no right to defend themselves and their families. Now comes another stab at freedom of expression by Trudeau in efforts to control the Internet, much like is done in China and North Korea. His move in essence will destroy YouTubers, unless their focus is on “Canadian content..
The consequences of Trudeau’s unprecedented move to control and censor the Internet will be disastrous. Canada is not only tightening the noose and restricting freedom, it is isolating itself.
These Trudeau “committees” are merely made to look as though the Trudeau government actually cares what anyone thinks.
Trudeau government is now saying that “it will not press the Senate to rush the Online Streaming Act into law before the summer recess.” As if that makes any difference. Plus, the Liberals have shut down debate on the bill in the House of Commons.
Hope is in the hands of Canada’s Senators now. The Senators should act responsibly and shut down the bill altogether.
“FIRST READING: Liberals’ latest ‘censor the internet’ bill sparks Canadian YouTuber backlash,” by Tristin Hopper, Vancouver Sun, June 9, 2022:
As the federal government pushes to exert unprecedented control over the internet, YouTubers are warning that it could singlehandedly demolish one of the world’s richest sources of Canadian content.
Bill C-11 — a reboot of a prior Liberal attempt to submit the internet to CRTC control — would force online streaming platforms such as Netflix, YouTube and even TikTok to alter their algorithms so that CRTC-approved “Canadian content” is disproportionately pushed on viewers.
Or, as the bill puts it, “online undertakings shall clearly promote and recommend Canadian programming … and ensure that any means of control of the programming generates results allowing its discovery.”
The problem for Canadian YouTubers — many of whom rank as some of the platform’s most successful creators — is that officially qualifying for government-certified “Canadian content” status requires wading through a thicket of CRTC red tape.
Under the current CanCon regulations observed by Canadian legacy media, programs must provide proof of Canadian citizenship for a minimum number of the cast and crew. Detailed budgets must also be submitted ensuring that 75 per cent of production expenses are from “Canadians or Canadian companies.”Any streamer who fails to do this could see their content artificially hidden by CRTC mandate.
“Most Canadian YouTubers shudder at the thought that this could be our fate,” Canadian YouTuber J.J. McCullough said in recent testimony before a House of Commons committee.
With 769,000 subscribers to his YouTube channel, McCullough regularly boasts view counts that are exponentially higher than even the highest-rated CBC programs. But he told the Committee that he still ranks only among the “mid-level” of Canadian YouTubers….
mortimer says
All that Jihadi Justin wants is LIBERAL content … he wants censorship of dissent. He is an authoritarian who denounces other authoritarians, and then introduces measures to silence Canadians who disagree with him..
The Canadian Libtards can’t see their own hypocrisy. Hopefully, the people will see it.
Fitna says
Trudeau is clearly trying to out-do the North Korea’s of the world. “You can have any colored car you like as long as it’s black.” “We leftist ideologues know what is best for you.”
I’m sure even many Liberals are saying this isn’t what we voted for. Where are the Conservatives and sensible Liberals? Why are Canadians voting for this disastrous socialist regime over and over?
“Guns for me, not for thee” -Trudeau. Watching your boring CRTC/Pravda-approved state content comrade and enjoy your bread and water. If you dare to speak out, they’ll send you to the Gulags on Baffin Island.
gravenimage says
Canada: Liberals’ ‘censor the Internet’ bill sparks YouTuber backlash
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Glad to see this pushback!
Holy Maduha-Ncube says
Justin Blackface Castro..Wannabe dictator. Has foisted covid apartheid in Canada, is encouraging ethnic hatred in canada. THIS biological son of Fidel Castro is as evil as they come..
Andrew Blackadder says
I wonder how this will affect RAIR as that is a really great Website out of Canada.
Jihadi Justin is a soy boy of the highest rating, he had even less experience than Obummer… oops I meant Obama, and they are ”close”… hint,hint, in everything they think and do..
Tom says
“Ideas are more powerful than guns. We don’t allow our enemies to have guns, why should we let them have ideas.” Justin Trudeau …. No it was Joseph Stalin who said it many years ago, but it might as well have been Trudeau who said it because his actions and words reflect the very epitome of Stalin’s statement.
That is to disarm Canadians and impose censorship on them, and by doing so enslaving them. “Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can be enslaved.” Aristotle.
Finally, “To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” Voltaire.
Trudeau fits all of the above and it is time for Canadians to wake up.
gravenimage says
I’d check the attribution of some of those quotes, Tom.