Canadian Heritage committee  That's exactly what I said. Borders in the world today are much more porous than they used to be. As a result, protecting Canadian values requires us to be much more attentive than we used to be about what is happening elsewhere. It's important to pay attention to methods being u

Canadian Heritage committee  Basically, we need to find innovative ways to reinvent public service. Everywhere in the world, the same question needs to be asked: how, today, can we design a public news service that is relevant and that meets the population's needs Services for the public have to be reinvent

Canadian Heritage committee  To answer the first part of your question, governments should indeed be consistent. How is it possible to justify spending hundreds of millions of dollars on behalf of companies that choose not to comply with Canadian law? Companies like that should not be receiving funds, whethe

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, that's the impression I'm getting, and it's important to ask why it's like that. It's because advertising revenue is now being generated on platforms from which the public, and in particular young people, are getting more and more of their news content. Many of our fellow ci

Canadian Heritage committee  Unfortunately, Canada and other countries have lagged far behind in implementing measures to ensure that the ground rules are the same for national stakeholders, by which I mean national companies, and international ones, meaning the web companies. We've lost decades by doing no

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm a professor of media law and information technology law. I was a member of the Yale committee, a group of experts on updating Canada's communications statutes. Almost three years ago now, we tabled a report entitled "Canada's Communications Future: Ti

Canadian Heritage committee  In fact, the challenge is to update the regulations that all the countries of the world have deemed necessary to implement to ensure that everyone has a real voice and can have a say. Of course, the technical world of the Internet allows for many more possibilities. However, we h

Canadian Heritage committee  The discoverability obligations are a very good example of the phenomenon we are witnessing. The large platforms do not operate in a neutral manner, but rather according to commercial interests. So they do not have a natural interest in promoting material from minority cultures i

Canadian Heritage committee  I do not believe that this gives the CRTC too much power. When exercising its powers under proposed section 4.2, the CRTC must at least ensure that it respects freedom of expression. So I don't see why there is any concern that users or individuals will be harmed by this section.

Canadian Heritage committee  In fact, the issue of algorithms is crucial, because by default, that's how speech is regulated in the large platforms. At present, it is the companies that own these large platforms that have control over the algorithmic processes, and it is they who are targeted by the bill. Le

Canadian Heritage committee  In fact, the regulation applies to the platforms. The Broadcasting Act practically never regulated the content itself, and it's the same thing today. What the CRTC does is regulate the way companies organize their operations, not the direct content. The CRTC does not censor or in

Canadian Heritage committee  In my opinion, the way to proceed is to ensure that the data is more accessible to the regulator. The data are produced by Canadians like you and me, not by companies. It's our activities that are being monitored on the Internet, and these companies—

Canadian Heritage committee  As I understand it, clause 4 essentially provides that services that do not have an impact on the achievement of the Canadian broadcasting policy objectives do not have to be regulated. Since it is possible that some services that do not have an impact on Canadian broadcasting p

Canadian Heritage committee  In my opinion, we can't really take these fears of alleged censorship seriously. The Broadcasting Act prohibits the CRTC from infringing on freedom of expression. Therefore, the CRTC could not take measures that would censor what users can put online. That seems to me to be compl

Canadian Heritage committee  That's exactly it. This is not an unregulated space; it is a space that is currently regulated by dominant companies. The question we have to ask ourselves is this: do we prefer to be regulated by the likes of YouTube, Google, and Facebook or by a democratic process, which Canadi