Canada Prime Minister Trudeaus Wants to Regulate Internet Thoughts
Canadian Liberal Party Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in his ninth year in office after surviving a Parliamentary no-confidence vote for passing a job-destroying $59 per ton CO2 tax on April Fool’s Day, is retaliating by offering six bills that would grant him the power to seize control of the internet, seize control of the media, crush dissent, and control the population.
Trudeau claims he needs to pass The Online Streaming Act #C-11 to continue the 1991 reform of the Canadian Broadcasting Act to include online streaming that were not available at the time. Trudeau claims he needs to control the YouTube, TikTok, Facebook algorithms to prioritize “Canadian content,” code name for his Liberal Party’s favored content, rather than allow users to view the content they were interested in.
By declaring every piece of user-generated audiovisual content on the web as a form of broadcasting subject to Canadian regulation, Trudeau would create an authoritarian regulatory framework with the power to administratively censor or remove any content.
The Catholic Civil Rights League of Canada is concerned that Bill C-11 will deprioritize the free speech of Catholics and prioritizing transgender affirming content such as Canada’s transgender Drag Race and pro-abortion broadcasts. The League argues:
“In a free and democratic society efforts to limit free speech must be opposed in favor of open communication, which includes opinions that the government might view as dissentient … We support the dignity of the human person from conception until natural death in our opposition to abortion and euthanasia. We hope that broadcasters will allow such voices to be heard in a robust way, rather than submit to government diktat.”
Trudeau also claims he needs Online News Act #C-18 to “regulate digital news intermediaries with a view to enhancing fairness in the Canadian digital news marketplace and contributing to its sustainability, including the sustainability of independent local news businesses.” The bill would give Trudeau the power to select who is a journalist and ban opposition news organization stories as just opinions.
Canadia’s top 5 media organizations in Canada —Bell, Telus, Rogers, Shaw and Quebecor already account for 73% of all media revenue in Canada. C-18 would require on Facebook and Google make “payment for links” for “approved journalists.” As a result, the Big 5 giants would get about $329 million per year in additional revenue.