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24 Nov 2022, 5:10 am by Michael Geist
The government has seemingly tried to ignore those startups with Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez talking about 400+ news outlet closures since 2008, but neglecting to refer to the hundreds of new outlets that have sprung up during the same period. [read post]
15 Jun 2023, 5:11 am by Michael Geist
While Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez claimed it would lead to increased choice (a claim he re-iterated this week in Banff), critics of the bill argued that the opposite was true, namely that the bill would likely lead to fewer services entering the Canadian market or streamers reducing content choices. [read post]
17 Mar 2023, 4:15 am by Michael Geist
In the context of Bill C-18, those tactics amount to little more than making the business choice that Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez made clear was a function of his bill: if you link to content, you fall within the scope of the law and must pay. [read post]
22 Jan 2009, 1:08 pm
  The opposition critics in the two areas with the strongest link to technology issues have changed - the new Liberal opposition critic for Industry, Science and Technology is Mark Garneau (replacing Gerard Kennedy, who moves to Infrastructure, Communities and Cities), while the Liberal opposition critic for Canadian Heritage is Pablo Rodriguez (replacing Hedy Fry, who has been dropped from the ranks of opposition critics). [read post]
27 Apr 2022, 6:26 am by Michael Geist
Instead, Freeland, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Innovation, Science and Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne, and Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez have chosen to reject the recommendations of students, teachers, universities, librarians, IP experts, and their own Justice Minister. [read post]
7 Jul 2022, 6:57 am by Michael Geist
The controversy over the CRTC’s Radio-Canada decision involving its repeated use of the N-word has continued to grow with Quebec-based politicians – including the governing CAQ and the Liberal Party of Quebec – warning of censorship and calling on Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez to reverse the CRTC decision. [read post]
3 Mar 2022, 7:25 am by Michael Geist
Indeed, while Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez and the CRTC have sought to downplay concerns that the CRTC would seek to regulate online content, Hutton told the committee the Commission needs more power in order to adopt a more interventionist approach: With respect to the role of the ISPs themselves, yes we have considerable authority on many different fronts, but the Telecom Act and how we have to implement it and it is certainly not clear – and I’m being… [read post]
14 Dec 2022, 5:06 am by Michael Geist
While Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez and media lobbyists will no doubt celebrate the milestone, it should not go unremarked that the legislative process for this bill has been an utter embarrassment with an already bad bill made far worse. [read post]
16 Feb 2023, 5:29 am by Michael Geist
Nearly two years later, Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez and his staff have ignored the concerns of thousands of digital creators, disrespected indigenous creators, and indicated that he will likely reject Senate amendments designed to craft a compromise solution, all in the name of keeping Quebec lobby interests satisfied. [read post]
8 Jul 2019, 6:10 am by Michael Geist
Michael Geist: Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez recently appeared to pre-empt the Government’s broadcast and telecommunications legislative review panel. [read post]
30 Mar 2022, 7:00 am by Michael Geist
Consider the latest attempt to assuage concerns: a cartoon of Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez providing an assurance that the bill’s changes won’t affect individual Canadians since “the changes only apply to companies. [read post]
16 Mar 2021, 2:54 pm by Stephen Caines
Trillium Chang, Stanford Law ’21, and Luis Rodriguez, Stanford Political Science PhD ’21, co-founders, Decisis. [read post]
5 Apr 2022, 5:30 am by Michael Geist
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez is expected to introduce the Online News Act (technically An Act respecting online communications platforms that make news content available to persons in Canada), his response to a massive lobbying campaign from Canadian media organizations today. [read post]
23 Jun 2007, 3:46 pm
The private members' bill, introduced by Liberal MP Pablo Rodriguez, gives the government 60 days toprepare a climate plan with measures to ensure that Canada meet its obligations under the Kyoto treaty. [read post]
20 Sep 2022, 7:00 am by Michael Geist
In fact, after Rodriguez left the CBC’s Vassy Kapelos visibly puzzled, he has said little about it. [read post]
30 Jun 2022, 6:45 am by Michael Geist
It also continues a disturbing trend of revelations that have come in the aftermath of Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez cutting off debate to rush the bill through the House of Commons: officials later admitting that the $1B claim of benefits is merely an “illustrative” estimate, CRTC Chair Ian Scott opening the door to indirect algorithmic regulation, and now the release of a decision on content regulation that dates back to November 2020. [read post]
21 Apr 2022, 6:01 am by Michael Geist
” While Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez has agreed to re-assess the online harms policy with a new expert panel and initiated a re-branding as “online safety”, the entire consultation process is an absolute embarrassment to the government. [read post]
6 Dec 2022, 4:50 am by Michael Geist
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez’s claim that Bill C-18, the Online News Act, was a hands-off approach was never really credible, but the clause-by-clause review of the bill has taken the government picking media winners and losers to another level. [read post]
8 Feb 2023, 6:43 am by Michael Geist
If there is criticism to bear about Bill C-11’s uncertainty, it should be directed in the direction of Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez, not Margaret Atwood. [read post]
27 Apr 2023, 5:00 am by Michael Geist
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez will undoubtedly reappear with the bill’s passage and his department will line up supportive comments from lobby groups to offer praise to the government for passing Bill C-11. [read post]