<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Check out the last sentence of her response -- Fair for me to assume that our petition entries will be relegated to the bit bucket unless we cough up our full address and mebbe, tele #? <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I do see the MPs' point that they would want to qualify petition entries one way or another, am OK with giving them my home(or office) address but am reluctant to give out my tele #.<br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Thanks,<br><br>Ron S.<br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Chagger, Bardish - M.P.</b> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:Bardish.Chagger@parl.gc.ca">Bardish.Chagger@parl.gc.ca</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 3:53 PM<br>Subject: RE: Vote NO on C-10<br>To: ron singh <<a href="mailto:ronsingh149@gmail.com">ronsingh149@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br>Dear Ron,<br>
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Thank you for contacting our office to share your position on Bill C-10, An Act to Amend the Broadcast Act. Listening to issues raised by constituents is an important part of my job as your Member of Parliament, and I take it very seriously. Your position has been noted. Please provide your complete residential address for our records, as well as a phone number if possible.<br>
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Through the COVID-19 pandemic, we have seen how essential internet access truly is to the way Canadians connect with one another and go about their daily lives. Our government understands how important it is that we are free to express ourselves online, and wants to continue to protect that right. After thorough review, Justice Canada’s analysis confirms that Bill C-10 remains consistent with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which protects Canadian’s freedom of speech.<br>
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To be clear, Bill C-10 is not about controlling what Canadians post online; this legislation will not apply to individuals who publish on social media platforms as they will never be considered a broadcaster under the conditions of the Broadcasting Act. The Bill’s obligations will only apply to web giants, not Canadian users. Proposed amendments to severely limit the powers of the regulator on social media platforms, and explicitly exclude individuals from any form of regulation.<br>
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Web giants have gone unregulated for far too long as the digital economy has rapidly expanded. With Bill C-10, we’re working to level the field between web giants and the local creators of our cultural content. The Bill would require powerful foreign streaming services to provide information on their revenues in Canada, financially contribute to Canadian stories and music, and ensure that Canadian artists are more discoverable on their platforms.<br>
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As emphasized in Budget 2021, we know how important it is to have a long-term plan to help Canadian businesses, including in the creative industry, grow and succeed. We recognize that our creators cannot afford to wait any longer, and that restoring long-term economic growth in this sector will help our creators come back stronger than ever.<br>
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Our government is committed to action and we stand ready to work with our colleagues in other parties to protect our culture and promote Canadian works and creators in Canada and abroad. I appreciate you writing on this legislation. At all stages, our government has welcomed amendments to make sure this legislation services its intended purpose which was never about individual user speech.<br>
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I appreciate you taking the time to write to our office and to share your feedback on this legislation. Upon receipt of your complete residential address, we will raise your concerns with colleagues. I hope this information is of assistance, and that you are keeping well and safe. <br>
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Sincerely,<br>
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Honourable Bardish Chagger, P.C.<br>
Member of Parliament for the Riding of Waterloo<br>
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From: ron singh <<a href="mailto:ronsingh149@gmail.com" target="_blank">ronsingh149@gmail.com</a>> <br>
Sent: May 13, 2021 3:24 PM<br>
To: Chagger, Bardish - M.P. <<a href="mailto:Bardish.Chagger@parl.gc.ca" target="_blank">Bardish.Chagger@parl.gc.ca</a>><br>
Subject: Vote NO on C-10<br>
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To: MP Bardish Chagger<br>
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As your constituent, I am writing to demand you vote no to Bill C-10, An Act to Amend the Broadcast Act, which was recently amended to include regulation of user-generated content on the Internet.<br>
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Supporting the production of Canadian cultural content is an important objective. But the current draft of Bill C-10 goes so much further than that, giving the CRTC full powers to impose broadcast-style regulations over every single piece of audio-visual content posted on the Internet by individual users. This means Internet platforms that host videos, memes, apps, and other content generated by individuals in Canada on the open web will be forced to uphold the same standards as radio and TV stations for every single post.<br>
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Minister Guilbeault has promised that the government will issue temporary guidance to the CRTC that limits the use of those powers in the short term. That’s not nearly good enough.<br>
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No matter how the current government may promise it will direct the CRTC to limit its use of these new powers – once they’re written in law, those extreme new powers are there to stay. Current and future governments could demand the CRTC crack down and limit how user content in Canada appears on the web as they see fit – without the checks and balances of public consultation or even a vote of parliament ever needed again.<br>
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The lesson of recent political upheavals in democracies is that our laws must be designed to resist future bad governance and potential abuses of power, not assume good intentions. It is completely unacceptable for either the Canadian government or the CRTC to be granted so much sweeping power to determine what people in Canada can watch and say online.<br>
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Please vote NO to Bill C-10. It needs to be sent back to the drawing board. Our government must re-imagine its goal of supporting Canadian culture to support innovative Canadian content native to new internet platforms, not impose inappropriate and suffocating 20th century regulation standards on the Internet.<br>
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Sincerely,<br>
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ron singh<br>
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