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The good, the bad and the ugly of C-11 discussed at Heritage Committee meeting


OTTAWA – While some witnesses emphasized the importance of passing Bill C-11 for Canadian broadcasters, others raised concerns about the role it sets out for the CRTC and the potential for user-generated content (UGC) to be regulated during the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage’s first five-hour meeting on the bill today. Over the course of the meeting, multiple witnesses told the committee the CRTC does not have the expertise the bill requires of it. “The number of decisions that are left for it to make in Bill C-11 – deciding what companies this applies to and that sort of stuff...