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{
"time": "2022-05-11 19:00:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Don Davies (Vancouver Kingsway, NDP)",
"fr": "M. Don Davies (Vancouver Kingsway, NPD)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"7141541\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, I want to quote a few key sections of this bill for my hon. colleague.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7141542\" data-originallang=\"en\">In the bill, proposed subsection 2(2.1) says:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"7141543\" data-originallang=\"en\"> A person who uses a social media service to upload programs for transmission over the Internet and reception by other users of the service \u2014 and who is not the provider of the service or the provider\u2019s affiliate, or the agent or mandatary of either of them \u2014 does not, by the fact of that use, carry on a broadcasting undertaking for the purposes of this Act. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"7141544\" data-originallang=\"en\">Proposed subsection 2(2.2) reads, \u201cAn online undertaking that provides a social media service does not, for the purposes of this Act, exercise programming control over programs uploaded by a user of the service\u201d.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7141545\" data-originallang=\"en\">Finally, proposed subsection 2(3) of the act reads:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"7141546\" data-originallang=\"en\"> This Act shall be construed and applied in a manner that is consistent with </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7141547\" data-originallang=\"en\"> (a) the freedom of expression and journalistic, creative and programming independence enjoyed by broadcasting undertakings; </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"7141548\" data-originallang=\"en\">I just wonder what my hon. colleague's take on those is. Does she not feel that they make it clear that users of the Internet are not covered as broadcasters and that the changes to the act would be consistent with the concept of freedom of expression?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"7141541\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, je voudrais citer quelques passages de cette mesure l\u00e9gislative \u00e0 ma coll\u00e8gue. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7141542\" data-originallang=\"en\">Dans le projet de loi, au paragraphe 2(2.1), on peut lire ceci: </p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"7141543\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Ne constitue pas l\u2019exploitation d\u2019une entreprise de radiodiffusion pour l\u2019application de la pr\u00e9sente loi le fait, pour l\u2019utilisateur d\u2019un service de m\u00e9dia social, de t\u00e9l\u00e9verser des \u00e9missions en vue de leur transmission par Internet et de leur r\u00e9ception par d\u2019autres utilisateurs, pourvu que cet utilisateur ne soit pas le fournisseur du service, son affili\u00e9 ou le mandataire de l\u2019un deux. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"7141544\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le paragraphe 2(2.2), quant \u00e0 lui, indique: \u00ab Pour l\u2019application de la pr\u00e9sente loi, l\u2019entreprise en ligne fournissant un service de m\u00e9dia social n\u2019exerce pas un contr\u00f4le de la programmation sur les \u00e9missions t\u00e9l\u00e9vers\u00e9es par tout utilisateur du service de m\u00e9dia social [...] \u00bb</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7141545\" data-originallang=\"en\">Enfin, le paragraphe 2(3) du projet de loi se lit comme suit: </p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"7141546\" data-originallang=\"en\"> L\u2019interpr\u00e9tation et l\u2019application de la pr\u00e9sente loi doivent se faire d'une mani\u00e8re qui respecte: </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7141547\" data-originallang=\"en\"> a) d\u2019une part, la libert\u00e9 d\u2019expression et l\u2019ind\u00e9pendance, en mati\u00e8re de journalisme, de cr\u00e9ation et de programmation, dont jouissent les entreprises de radiodiffusion; </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"7141548\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je me demande simplement ce que pense ma coll\u00e8gue de ces citations. Ne croit-elle pas qu'elles indiquent clairement que les utilisateurs d'Internet ne sont pas consid\u00e9r\u00e9s comme des radiodiffuseurs et que les modifications apport\u00e9es \u00e0 la loi respecteraient le principe de la libert\u00e9 d'expression? </p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2022/5/11/don-davies-4/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/don-davies/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1007/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "11680735",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Online Streaming Act",
"fr": "Loi sur la diffusion continue en ligne"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2022/5/11/",
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}