The bill expanding the power of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to regulate digital-content giants like Netflix passed in the House of Commons at 1:30 a.m. ET Tuesday, with support from the NDP and Bloc Québécois. MPs rejected a Conservative attempt to restore a provision exempting user-generated material from online services’ Canadian-content obligations. (The Logic)
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The bill expanding the power of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to regulate digital-content giants like Netflix passed in the House of Commons at 1:30 a.m. ET Tuesday, with support from the NDP and Bloc Québécois. MPs rejected a Conservative attempt to restore a provision exempting user-generated material from online services’ Canadian-content obligations. (The Logic)
Talking point: The Liberal government is almost out of time to pass laws before the House of Commons breaks for the summer after an extra-long day Wednesday. Senators have signalled they won’t wave the bill through before their own break at the end of the week: this is the kind of society-shaping bill for which the Senate likes to take its time gathering its sober second thoughts. If a fall election intervenes, the bill vaporizes—but it still gives Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault a symbolic win to boast in Quebec, where standing up to the Netflixes, YouTubes and Amazons of the world is popular.
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