Licensing for media companies in Canada would likely be proportionate (Gov't to regulate speech)

[mountaineer]

Licensing for media companies in Canada would likely be proportionate: Heritage minister
Sarah Turnbull
CTVNews.ca
Published Sunday, February 2, 2020 7:00AM EST

OTTAWA -- The minister charged with modernizing Canada’s broadcast and telecommunications law says if the government is to adopt recommendations laid out by an expert panel, licensing enforcement likely won’t be applied the same way for small media groups as it will be for global tech giants.

One of the report’s proposals, drafted by former telecommunications executive Janet Yale, specifically suggests requiring all companies that deliver "audio, audiovisual, and alphanumeric news content" to Canadians be regulated by the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) or another body, through a licence or registration. ...

Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner, who holds the title of shadow minister for industry and economic development, shares this perspective and voiced her concerns in a statement following the release of the report. ...

 Another of the panel’s submissions she contends with is the notion that the CRTC would identify news sites that are "accurate, trusted, and reliable" to enhance the "diversity of voices."

"It’s very paternalizing and also very frightening to think that the government would try to impose or say that’s the role of the government to control. That puts us in league with countries that control the media," said Rempel Garner. ...

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[mountaineer]

Maxime Bernier   @MaximeBernier

After the $600M media bailout carrot, now comes the stick.
First you’ll need a government licence. Then you must follow government norms and regulations for content, or else you lose the licence
Leftist “tolerance” and “diversity” in action.

Trudeau cabinet minister: all news websites must now get a government licence.
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Can form my own opinion   @form_opinion
Replying to  @MaximeBernier

Jeebus
I’m actually living during the time when Canada is being flushed down the toilet....
Look up and prepare for Canadian communism boys&girls
Slippery slope
It’s coming
#thanktrudeau #trudeaumustgo
#cdnpoli
8:01 PM · Feb 2, 2020

[mountaineer]

Canadian Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault on Regulating Foreign News Sites: “What’s the Big Deal?”
February 3, 2020

In June 2017, the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage committee recommended implementing tax on Internet services in a report on media. Within minutes, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was asked about the proposal at a press conference in Montreal. Trudeau’s answer – which literally came as committee chair Hedy Fry was holding a press conference on the report – was unequivocal: No. The government was not going to raise costs of Internet services with an ISP tax. The committee recommendation was minutes old and the government wasted absolutely no time in killing the proposal.

Last week, the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislative Review Panel proposed a far broader regulatory vision for the Internet. Indeed, it is difficult to give the full breadth of this plan its due. I will be posting this week on some of the most harmful aspects of the plan, including regulating media organizations around the world with penalties in the hundreds of thousands of dollars for failing to obtain licences, regulating streaming companies despite their massive investment in Canada, regulating everything from app stores to operating systems, creating liability for harmful content that violates Canada’s commitments in the USMCA, undermining net neutrality, and increasing the costs of Internet-based services for Canadian consumers. ...  More by Michael Geist

[mountaineer]

Steven Guilbeault’s Denial Of Liberal Government Media Licensing Plan Cannot Be Trusted
SpencerFernando
February 3, 2020

The Liberals tried to sneak it through and got caught. Now, they’ll try in a different way.

As I reported earlier, the Liberals are now denying that they plan to force media to obtain government licenses, despite having said so just a day ago:
Here’s what they say now:

CPAC✔@CPAC_TV

In Ottawa, Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault clarifies his position on broadcasting & telecom review panel's recommendations: "Let me be clear. Our govt has no intention to impose licensing requirements on news organizations nor will we try to regulate news content." #cdnpoli

  ...  Guilbeault and the Liberals cannot be trusted. They tried to takeover the media, and they’ll try it again. And when they do, all freedom-loving Canadians must be ready.

More by Spencer Fernando

[dfwgator]

They voted for it.

Embrace the suck.

[Fishrrman]

Recall, if you will, the old Twilight Zone episode, "People Are Alike All Over".

In that vein, leftists/communists are alike all over as well.
Everywhere.

[mountaineer]

Canadian PM Backpedals on Forcing Licensing on News Bloggers
By Gerry Brinkman / February 4, 2020

 (LifeSiteNews) — The Canadian Government backpedaled on comments published by CTV News that the Trudeau Liberals are planning to force news websites and social media to obtain a government license to operate in Canada.

Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault spoke during an interview with CTV’s Evan Solomon on the report released last Wednesday that recommends massive expansion of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to “regulate” not only radio and television broadcasters but news websites as well. ...

However, because of massive backlash against this form of government meddling, Guilbeault attempted to soft-shoe out of his former comments in a news conference held Monday.

“Our focus will be and always has been that Canadians have diversity to high-quality news sources,” said Guilbeault, also adding that “we will speak again when we have legislation to present.”  ... Full story