<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">They caused a lot of trouble for Harper’s various pet projects as well. When I was in my 20s I wasn’t real happy with the idea of the Senate but as I’ve grown older I am liking the idea of them more and more.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-A.<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 1, 2021, at 9:24 PM, Jeff Smith <<a href="mailto:crankyoldbugger@gmail.com" class="">crankyoldbugger@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Well, this may be the first time in my life that I saw the Senators do something useful for a change...</div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div id="appendonsend" class=""></div><hr tabindex="-1" style="display: inline-block; width: 875.125px;" class=""><div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); width: 893px;" class=""><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><b class="">From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Matt at OpenMedia <<a href="mailto:contact@openmedia.org" class="">contact@openmedia.org</a>><br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>01 July 2021 15:15<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:rjeffsmith@live.ca" class="">rjeffsmith@live.ca</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><<a href="mailto:rjeffsmith@live.ca" class="">rjeffsmith@live.ca</a>><br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>BIG NEWS on C10!</font><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); width: 893px;" class=""> </div></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 893px;" class=""><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><table class="x_en__container x_en__container--grey" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#ffffff" style="width: 893px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="top" align="center" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><table class="x_en__section--body x_en__section" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20" border="0" bgcolor="#ffffff" style="width: 750px; max-width: 750px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="x_en__pad" align="left" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 20px;"><div class="x_ui-sortable x_en__component x_en__component--droppable" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); width: 710px;"><div class="x_en__component--textblock x_en__component x_ui-draggable-dragging" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); right: auto; bottom: auto; width: 710px;"><div style="margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div><div class="x_en__component x_en__component--textblock" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); width: 710px;"><p style="margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">Jeff,</p><p style="margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><strong class="">Good news! Our voices were heard: The Senate just REFUSED to rubber stamp Bill C-10 before their summer recess.</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Instead of rushing through the controversial bill as Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault has demanded, the Senate decided to refer it to committee for further study.<sup class="">1 </sup></p><p style="margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">Already, the quality of debate at the Senate has been a step up on what we saw in the House. Lawmakers are finally talking honestly about the real impact of C-10 — not its intentions, not what might happen in a best case scenario, but what it actually does, as written, today. </p><p style="margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">Senators are not very happy with what they see. Senator Paula Simons has called C-10 a backwards-facing “Maginot Line” that inappropriately fights yesterday’s broadcasting battles through the Internet.<sup class="">2</sup> Senator Leo Housakos observed that the Bill seems designed to benefit “media production companies with the lobbyists and lawyers to work it to their advantage” — not independent Canadian performers already popular on Canada’s Internet.<sup class="">3</sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Multiple senators are also raising concerns around the remaining ‘discoverability’ requirements in C-10, which even after amendments, would let the CRTC force some designated “Canadian” content into your feed, replacing other content. </p><p style="margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">In brief, every question about C-10’s risks, errors and omissions the House of Commons ignored while ramming this Bill through is now being raised by the senators the OpenMedia community has shared our voices with. </p><p style="margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><strong class="">I’ll say it again: Senators heard YOUR demand for more careful study of C-10, and they are acting on it. Thank you!</strong></p><p style="margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><strong class="">So what happens next?</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The Senate Committee on Transport and Communications will now launch its own inquiry into concerns and unanswered questions around Bill C-10. They’ll have the opportunity to call further experts, debate amongst themselves, and propose further amendments — though how detailed their inquiry will be remains to be seen. Best case scenario, they may remove CRTC power to manipulate our feeds from C-10, and ensure financial support clearly supports small online creators of diverse Canadian backgrounds, not just legacy media companies. They could also let this Bill die, and ask Heritage to start fresh on figuring out how to support Canadian storytelling online — with a bit more attention to the details this time!</p><p style="margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><strong class="">We’ll keep following this every step of the way.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong>We’ll be lobbying to present to the Senate Committee directly once their inquiry is in motion, do our best to inform them of what our community’s concerns are, and keep you informed at each stage. The fight is far from over, and the Senate may still let us down; but in getting this far we’ve proven that the voice of ordinary people still matters, and can force our representatives to slow down and listen to us.</p><p style="margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">I’m so proud of what we do together. Thank you for getting involved, and joining us on this key fight to make sure our rights to expression and information continue to be respected.</p><p style="margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">Matt Hatfield, Campaigns Director at OpenMedia</p><p style="margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">P.S. All of our work is only possible due to your support, and C-10 is just the first government proposal this year that threatens our freedom of expression. Major new legislation around ‘online harms’ is planned for this fall, and if it is poorly designed, it could have a much greater impact on our rights than Bill C-10. If you’re able to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.e-activist.com/page/email/click/2205/5388565?email=nO0X7pg%2BPsz9cpe5pw1S9snSLh0xHnKn&campid=Ypwtd2QGeWK15xl1A%2FXc2A==" class="">give</a> today to support our work, you’ll be ensuring we’re ready to assess this legislation and fight to fix or defeat it if we need to.</p></div><div class="x_sources x_en__component--textblock x_en__component x_ui-draggable-dragging" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); right: auto; bottom: auto; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); font-size: 10px; width: 710px;"><div style="margin: 0px 16px; padding: 0px;" class=""><strong class="">Sources</strong></div><ol class=""><li style="line-height: 15px;" class="">Heritage Minister asks senators to focus on passing Bill C-10 -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-steven-guilbeault-asks-senators-to-focus-on-passing-bill-c-10/" class="">The Globe and Mail</a></li><li style="line-height: 15px;" class="">Bills: Senate Senate second reading of Bill C-10 -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SceAKjT4_tE" class="">Senator Paula Simons</a></li><li style="line-height: 15px;" class="">The CRTC “Will Be Picking Winners and Losers”: A Report on Day Two of the Senate Bill C-10 Debate -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2021/06/the-crtc-will-be-picking-winners-and-losers-a-report-on-day-two-of-the-senate-bill-c-10-debate/" class="">Michael Geist</a></li></ol></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="x_en__container x_en__container--grey" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" bgcolor="#ffffff" style="width: 893px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="top" align="center" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><table class="x_en__section x_en__section--footer" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20" border="0" bgcolor="#21c0de" style="width: 750px; max-width: 750px; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="x_en__pad" align="center" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 20px;"><div class="x_en__component x_en__component--textblock" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); width: 710px;"><p align="center" style="margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><small class="">We work to safeguard the possibilities of the open Internet, and toward informed and participatory digital policy. 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