Liberals want to cut the debate on broadcasting the bill

They are trying to pass a motion forcing the Heritage Committee to meet strict deadlines to proceed with the C-11 clause-by-clause study. The motion also calls for a speedy vote by all MPs to pass the bill on third reading – the final stage of the legislative process in the House.

Early Monday afternoon, the Liberals took the first step in their offensive by managing to cut off, initially, the debate on the said motion. The vote on the measure, then, should take place around 8:30 pm, the office of the head of the government’s House, Mark Holland, told The Canadian Press.

Before the parliamentary break

The Trudeau government has repeatedly signaled in recent days that it wants to see Bill C-11 move forward faster than it does now, before the summer recess is set to begin. June 23. He accused the Conservatives – through the mouth of Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez, among others – of obstructing this file being considered a priority.

The Conservatives are in disbelief on Bill C-11. One MP even said that ‘the bill should die a thousand times’Mr. Rodriguez argued again Monday in a written statement sent by his office.

The Minister referred to comments made by elected Rachael Thomas who believes, like her Conservative colleagues, that the bill would bar users of the platform in relation to content they can share.

Liberals say it is disinformation and that the Conservatives refused to actually consider amendments to improve the bill, and they argued that the official opposition instead wanted to make it tread on the committee.

Their motion was filed to terminate obstacle affirms that the Heritage Committee should begin its study of each clause no later than June 14, 2022 at 11:59 am and finish it at a set time falling on the same day, at exactly 9 pm

If the Committee does not complete its study […]all remaining amendments were submitted to the Committee [seront] deemed to have been transferred and placed by the Chairman[ra] put to the vote immediately and successively, without further debate, all remaining clauses and amendments submitted, as well as any question necessary to dispose of the bill’s clause-by-clause considerationreads the text of the motion.

The Liberal proposal also includes provisions for immediate C-11 voting by the entire House, the final step in getting the bill to the Senate.

Angry conservatives

The motion and the fact restricted debate about it angered Conservatives.

Even if I tried, I couldn’t invent [une telle chose] and yet this is what the government doesprotested John Nater, vice-president of the Heritage Committee.

In his opinion, Canadians do not understand the haste of the Liberals. [Cette motion] will force changes to every clause in the Broadcasting Act for the first time in three decades without a word of debatehe continued.

Instead, Liberal Randy Boissonnault insisted it was necessary back to the numbers. [Il y a eu] 15 hours of debate on second reading, 21 hours of debate in committee and 7 where the Conservatives did “filibustering [obstructionnisme]”he said.

New Democrats also believe the Conservatives blocked this file. The head of their house, Peter Julian, accused them of blocking changes to Bill C-11. This is very important. We work it out: we take the bills and make it betterhe insisted.

Bloc members, who signaled their opposition to the recourse to gag, believe for their part that the Liberals have also slowed down the debate on the modernization of the Broadcasting Act and cannot claim they are snow white. Their deputy parliamentary leader, Christine Normandin, recalled that the previous version of the C-11, C-10, died on the order paper when the Liberals asked to dissolve the House to start the election campaign.

If we hadn’t closed the House for election, we probably would have succeeded in removing the flesh [la question] and to pass [le projet de loi] in the Senate and pass it. So all the time we lost from June to February was more than the time the Conservatives made us in the House.he allegedly.

In fact, he argued that was impressive gag because C-11 will not allow it to be passed by the Upper House until next fall. The file will not come out in the Senate at the right time, because there are only a few days left in the Senate to sit.

When asked if the Liberals would force senators to provide their stamp of approval at full speed, Mr. Rodriguez assured in a written statement that this was not the case. I’ve been meeting and listening to senators for months, and they want a full study of the bill. The Senate needs to take the time to study ithe concludes.