Madam Speaker, I was quite surprised to hear my colleague, whom I truly respect, say that this is lazy legislation. All of the parties took several months to negotiate, propose and table amendments, both during the previous Parliament and now.
In terms of discoverability and content, yes, the CRTC will have to decide how content is handled, but it will not deal in specifics. It will not tell users what they can do.
Am I to understand that my colleague has no problem with the fact that nearly all the content we see on social media is American?
Does this mean that he believes that English-language Canadian content and American content are the same thing, and that we have no need to see more original Canadian content?