Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals’ amendment of the Broadcasting Act attempts to classify podcasters and musicians as “broadcasters” and subject them to national broadcast rules.
Bill C-11, or the Online Streaming Act, which has passed through both the House and the Senate and gained Royal Assent on February 2, 2023, will control what content search engines like Google and YouTube recommends to Canadian users.
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation in an in-depth analysis on the legislation earlier compared Bill C-11’s censorship to “authoritarian nations like China and North Korea.”
