Thu Jun 23, 2022 – 4:57 pm EDT
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) — A former chair of the Canadian Radio Television and Telecommunications Commission told the Senate that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s online censorship bill must be revised to protect free expression.
Retired CRTC chair Konrad von Finckenstein warned at Tuesday’s Senate communications committee meeting that if Trudeau’s internet regulation bill, C-11, is passed, it will grant “vast powers to the CRTC.”
Finckenstein told the committee that it is his opinion that the bill needs to be revised to exclude user-generated content from the scope of the CRTC in order to “respect the freedom of speech of Canadians.”
“Let’s face it, this Act is about money,” Finckenstein said. “It’s about getting money from the streamers to pay for Canadian content production … ”
Finckenstein is also the director of the Canadian Chapter of the Internet Society, a group that has been highly critical of Bill C-11.
“When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail,” the Society wrote to the heritage committee, whose minister, Pablo Rodriguez, introduced the controversial bill.
“C-11 is based on the tragic illusion all audio and audio-visual content on the internet
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