We're suggesting in Bill C-219 that we take immediate action when the House and/or the Senate declares that a country has committed genocide or declares that it is being sanctioned by the federal government because of its activities in a country or, for example, as we've witnessed with Russia and its aggression against Ukraine.
The nexus for adding this to the bill and for making the amendment to the Broadcasting Act is that it took forever to get Russia Today—RT TV—taken off the airwaves in Canada. This shouldn't take months. In this case, it took over a year to have it removed from the airwaves in Canada.
We need to act more quickly. As we see more nations committing atrocities or being more aggressive with their neighbours in their regions, we have to be prepared to immediately remove the state-owned or oligarch-owned media that is being used to transmit their propaganda across the airwaves and into Canada.