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22 Oct 2022, 5:50 am by Michael Geist
Indeed, after Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez’s embarrassing appearance on Friday, Liberal MP Anthony Housefather indicated that he had heard enough and that it was time to move to bill review with no further witnesses. [read post]
21 Oct 2022, 5:40 am by Michael Geist
Indeed, blocking stakeholders from participating in the process is a stain on Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez and a government that once committed to public consultation and engagement. [read post]
20 Oct 2022, 5:40 am by Michael Geist
The speeches are supplemented by tweets, such as this one by Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez. [read post]
19 Oct 2022, 5:45 am by Michael Geist
As the witness portion of the Canadian Heritage committee hearing into the Online News Act (Bill C-18) comes to a premature end later this week (a hearing is planned with Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez and the CRTC, but remarkably Facebook, the CBC, and many experts will be blocked from appearing), new data from the Parliamentary Budget Office calls into question the claims of big benefits for Canadian newspapers. [read post]
15 Oct 2022, 9:50 am by Michael Geist
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez’s spokesperson said the company was continuing to try to “avoid accountability. [read post]
12 Oct 2022, 5:36 am by Michael Geist
Instead, Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez has offered up a bill with few specifics and sparked industry expectations that are inconsistent with global norms. [read post]
7 Oct 2022, 2:39 pm by Michael Geist
The problems started even before the hearing as the committee voted against asking Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez to appear as part of the study, with some MPs saying they would take a wait-and-see approach. [read post]
6 Oct 2022, 5:45 am by Michael Geist
  Rather, it is almost certainly the case that this was orchestrated by the office of Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez. [read post]
29 Sep 2022, 6:56 am by Michael Geist
But this week those hearings attracted attention for another reason: serious charges of witness intimidation and bullying by government MPs, most notably Canadian Heritage Parliamentary Secretary Chris Bittle (yes, the same Bittle who last month suggested I was a racist and a bully for raising concerns about Minister Pablo Rodriguez silence over Canadian Heritage funding of an anti-semite as part of its anti-hate program). [read post]
26 Sep 2022, 4:00 am by Administrator
Today’s post raises an unlikely issue given that Bill C-18 is the responsibility of Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez, who also has part responsibility for copyright law in Canada. [read post]
23 Sep 2022, 5:45 am by Michael Geist
Today’s post raises an unlikely issue given that Bill C-18 is the responsibility of Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez, who also has part responsibility for copyright law in Canada. [read post]
21 Sep 2022, 7:31 am by Michael Geist
This is a clear policy choice from Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez, since the QCJO approach could have been used as the standard. [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]
15 Sep 2022, 5:13 am by Michael Geist
While some officials in Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez’s office have said their intent with the bill is to only cover the largest services with hundreds of thousands of subscribers, the bill does not include any such thresholds. [read post]
14 Sep 2022, 5:27 am by Michael Geist
In fact, the government talking point that the CRTC does not regulate was raised repeatedly with Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez telling the committee “the CRTC, whatever it does in regulations, has to respect freedom of expression. [read post]
12 Sep 2022, 5:50 am by Michael Geist
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez adopted the mantra that “platforms are in, users are out” of the bill and sought to assure concerned Canadians that it “listened, especially to the concerns around social media, and we’ve fixed it. [read post]
2 Sep 2022, 8:04 am by Michael Geist
As of last night, I could find that only 1/3 of the cabinet has said anything about this issue in the weeks since it emerged: 11 cabinet ministers by tweet or retweet, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in two press conferences, and Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez in a statement provided in response to a journalist query (but, to date, no actual statement has been publicly released). [read post]
30 Aug 2022, 6:00 am by Michael Geist
It examined the department’s failure to conduct proper due diligence, the failure of most Liberal MPs to speak out, and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Canadian Heritage Chris Bittle’s since deleted tweet that suggested I was racist when I expressed concern about silence from government ministers such as Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez. [read post]
29 Aug 2022, 5:15 am by Michael Geist
In my view, the government – led by Minister of Housing and Diversity and Inclusion Ahmed Hussen and Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez – have failed to take full responsibility for the CMAC case. [read post]