Senators face lobby pressure to amend Online Streaming Act and bring in ‘more guardrails’ amid user-content, discoverability concerns

Before the summer break, the House already accepted more than 150 amendments on Bill C-11. Senator Dennis Dawson says Senators have received a 'significant amount of correspondence' and warned Senators that some of the bill’s opponents have employed misinformation.

The Senate Transport and Communications Committee, including Leo Housakos, left, Donna Dasko, and Dennis Dawson are receiving hundreds of letters as they study Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

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BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

September 23, 2022

Senators say they're facing sustained lobbying pressure to change the Liberals' controversial online streaming legislation, and at recent meetings some of the organizations have warned Bill C-11 would make content creators “collateral damage” while independent medi...

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