What is Bill C-11 and what will it do?
Posted November 25, 2022 8:48 am.
On today’s Big Story Podcast, depending on who you ask it will either help Canadian creators level the online playing field, or wreck their business model.
The bill is intended to apply Canadian Content rules to online streaming—but it’s incredibly complex and difficult to judge how it will work in practice. So what’s in the bill? Why are some independent creators critical of it, and calling it the censorship bill? What does it do in an ideal world, and will it actually work as intended? And what does it mean for the average Canadian who loves to surf YouTube or TikTok?
Today’s Big Story guest is, Vass Bednar, the executive director of the Masters of Public Policy in Digital Society program at McMaster University, author of the Regs 2 Riches newsletter.
“The goal is to require online streaming giants like the ones we’re very familiar with, YouTube, Tik tok to contribute to the creation and availability of
Canadian content in the way that we do right now with music, film, and television,” said Bednar.
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