QUESTION PERIOD — Canadian Heritage
Impact of Bill C-11 on Artists
June 16, 2022
Senator Gold, I know that Bill C-11 hasn’t come forward yet, but I wonder if I could ask two quick questions about it, if you would indulge me.
Of course.
The first question is: How hard will it be for writers dealing with Canadian Heritage and the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, or CRTC, to deliver their own original work that does not fit the CRTC’s position or Canadian Heritage’s new mandate?
Thank you for the question. Regrettably, colleague, I don’t have the answer to that question.
Happily, though, pre-study on the bill in the Senate has begun. I have every confidence that question, and the answer to that question, will be clear as the committee continues its work.
If this bill is passed, will all artistic or creative platforms, no matter where they are in Canada, be monitored by government officials on a regular basis?
Again, colleague, I cannot answer that question with any precision.
Again, I invite you and any interested colleagues to participate in the pre-study and certainly when we get the bill, which we will this week, and when the bill is referred to committee at such time as it is when we return in the fall, then I expect that those answers will become clear.
