Parliament may be on a summer recess, but the debate over Bill C-11, which is now in the Senate, continues. Yesterday, I engaged in a Twitter debate with Matthew Gray, an official in the office of Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez that ultimately focused on the relative importance of the government’s “policy intention” vs. the actual text of the bill. Gray claimed that “only the largest services that are household names with hundreds of thousands of subscribers will be regulated” by Bill C-11. In other words, there have been meaningful opportunities to ensure that the bill does what the government says it intends. It will be up to the Senate to ensure that Bill C-11 takes a different road.

Source: CBC News July 19, 2022 17:25 UTC