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View Marie-Hélène Gaudreau Profile
BQ (QC)
It is reassuring to hear that. I hope that other countries will be on board, because this is a real problem. Every witness we've heard told us that. We are unable to legislate well with the tools we have, especially with regard to uploads and downloads.
There was another thing that really upset me. Witnesses told us that the more we legislate, the more there will be an increase in these misdeeds on the dark Web.
How are we going to do this? There are so many solutions, and I'm the first one to be overwhelmed by it all.
How will we get it right and sort things out to curtail these reprehensible activities insofar as possible and put an end to their proliferation on the dark web?
View Steven Guilbeault Profile
Lib. (QC)
That's an excellent question.
I would like to clarify something first. Regarding online cultural content issues, which are addressed in Bill C‑10, obviously some political parties have decided to join the big companies like Google and YouTube rather than support our artists. As for media compensation, Facebook reacted very strongly in Australia.
As for online harm and hate speech, several social media platforms have publicly called for government intervention, perhaps because they feel they are losing control of the situation. I'm not saying that they all have. I've personally met with most of these large platforms that have a presence in Canada. They obviously won't agree with everything that's going to be in the legislation—I've never seen a company agree with all of it. They do agree that more and more governments need to step in on this issue to help them.
Let me come back to the argument about the dark web. It's somewhat like saying that we should not put criminal sanctions in the laws, and eliminate them all instead, otherwise people will hide to commit their crimes. It may happen, but that's no reason to do nothing.
Honestly, the percentage of people who have the technical skills to access the dark web is very small. So we need to put the necessary laws in place. We won't solve everything, but with these laws we will solve a lot of the problem.
View Charlie Angus Profile
NDP (ON)
Okay.
Minister Bill Blair told us the government was creating this new regulator. Is this new regulator going to be the CRTC?
View Steven Guilbeault Profile
Lib. (QC)
Again, as I said to your colleague earlier, I am here to discuss the objectives of the legislation. In terms of the details of the legislation, that's not possible until the bill is tabled, but I would be happy to come back and testify at the committee.
View Charlie Angus Profile
NDP (ON)
I get that. I guess my concern is that you haven't actually come up with legislation. You don't know when this regulator's going to appear, and the RCMP internal notes say your office is taking the lead.
We have survivors who suffered serious crimes and abuse. We have the Criminal Code. I'm wanting to know why your government is saying that it will be the regulator that handles that, as opposed to telling the RCMP and the justice minister to do their job.
View Steven Guilbeault Profile
Lib. (QC)
I think you're misunderstanding what we're trying to do.
There are many reasons we need to create a regulator. One—
View Charlie Angus Profile
NDP (ON)
I know, but we're not talking about buddy in his basement doing revenge porn on his girlfriend. We're talking about a well-known company that's established in Montreal and that the RCMP says is one of its voluntary partners. We're talking about a company that is established. We're not talking about idiots making online hate comments.
If we have a law in the land and your government is not willing to use it against a company that breaks that law, I don't see how we tell survivors, “Don't worry, a regulator is going to make those guys come to heel.” How do we tell them that, if the laws of the land aren't going to be applied?
View Steven Guilbeault Profile
Lib. (QC)
I think I understand your point, and I would like to respond that it's not just about the regulator. It's going to be about an entire new ecosystem to help us deal with these harms online in a way that we can't right now. The regulator is but one component of that. It's not the entirety of the system we want to propose.
View Arnold Viersen Profile
CPC (AB)
All right. What steps would be taken to ensure that a regulator would be able to access the folks most affected by this problem—teenage girls and young adult women—seeing as they're not likely to be able to navigate complex bureaucracy?
View Arnold Viersen Profile
CPC (AB)
What enforcement mechanisms is this supposed regulator going to use?
View Steven Guilbeault Profile
Lib. (QC)
Again, I'm happy to discuss the objectives of the legislation with you. I would be happy to come back to discuss the details of the legislation once it is tabled.
View Arnold Viersen Profile
CPC (AB)
What about cases in which the victim is Canadian but the site isn't necessarily Canadian?
View Steven Guilbeault Profile
Lib. (QC)
I'm happy to repeat, but that's the answer I gave to your colleague, Madame Gaudreau.
The purpose of the legislation is that whether the company is Canadian, its servers are in Canada, its headquarters are in Canada or it's registered in Canada or elsewhere, if it's broadcasting images or videos in Canada, then the legislation will apply to that company.
Mr. Chair and Madam Clerk, I am being told that I must connect to the House of Commons debate five minutes before noon, which would have been a minute ago, I suppose. I'm in your hands, but I must get ready for another debate in the House of Commons.
View Charlie Angus Profile
NDP (ON)
That's a very helpful perspective on this.
I'm running out of time.
Ms. Lukings, I was really struck by your referring to the Privacy Commissioner.
Our Privacy Commissioner put the run on Facebook. He chased Clearview.ai out. He is investigating Pornhub. We have a regulator that does this.
The Liberals want to put in another regulator, not the regulator they're going to have to have for Pornhub, but the regulator who is going to oversee the Privacy Commissioner's work—who actually does excellent work.
I just want to get your perspective on this. If we have the Privacy Commissioner, who's not afraid to take on the giants, dealing with this as an issue of corporate liability, and if we already have laws, do you think we need to have this other set of regulations and regulators to do the job that right now we believe the Privacy Commissioner is probably doing quite well?
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