C-11: TRCM’s last witnesses make more of the same arguments

By Denis Carmel OTTAWA – It now appears senators on the transport and communications committee (TRCM) are suffering from witness fatigue. On Wednesday evening, five associations of artists involved in the creation of content in various forms came in front of committee to offer their comments on the Online Streaming Act, but they generally repeated the same arguments the committee had heard before. This prompted Senator Julie Miville-Dechêne (above) to quip that they all had heard these arguments, which were presented, in writing, by the Coalition for the Diversity of Cultural Expressions (CDCE) and supported by them and others before....