Bill C-11 a step backwards for transparency, accountability in broadcasting

The Online Streaming Act has a number of serious flaws, including a stunning level of complexity in certain sections that defies ready comprehension.

Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez’s Bill C-11 reduces transparency in a number of ways, including by eliminating existing levels of public participation in broadcast regulation, writes Monica Auer.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY MONICA AUER

March 23, 2022

Over the past several decades, Canada’s governments have adopted laws to strengthen transparency and accountability in government, such as the federal 1982 Access to Information Act and, more recently, the 2006 Federal Accountability Act. Transparency lets people know what government is doing, whi...

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