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> The regulation plans are revealed in a letter from ISED Minister François-Philippe Champagne to the Industry committee studying Bill C-27, the privacy reform

> The regulation plans are revealed in a letter from ISED Minister François-Philippe Champagne to the Industry committee studying Bill C-27, the privacy reform and AI regulation bill. The government is refusing to disclose the actual text of planned amendments to the bill. So like between this and their online harms bill they are proposing not to mention their massive screw up with their other tech bills, is CA just trying to cut the Internet out of the lives of their citizens? Seriously what is going on there? Anyone in CA want to comment?

momirlan 3y ago
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- dang 3y ago
  Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
  - momirlan 3y ago
    i appreciate your concern. the above is my sincere opinion, however I will refrain from posting political comments if that offends you.
dpc050505 3y ago
>Anyone in CA want to comment? Our media landscape is controlled by an oligopoly that has a stronghold on our federal politicians and web neutrality threatens that oligopoly.
- transcriptase 3y ago
  Precisely. Rogers, Telus, and Bell control practically all Canadian mobile/internet/tv/radio. The bodies that are supposed to regulate them are run by former execs of these companies, and our competition bureau seems to think that anything short of one of them having 100% market share means they don’t need to actually intervene in any mergers or acquisitions. Politicians obviously don’t want to upset three of the most powerful, well poised to influence public perception companies in Canada… which may as well be considered a single entity with respect to them actually competing at all. And so they basically all lobby for the same insane, protectionist, anti-competition, anti-consumer laws and regulations, and nearly always get their way. In recent years this means prodding the government to introduce absurd regulations on the internet.
- VirusNewbie 3y ago
  right right, the solution to an oligopoly is to have it controlled instead by a single entity that also has a monopoly on violence.
chongli 3y ago
This is a lame duck government. They’ve been in power since 2015 and people are finally getting sick of them. The Liberal party (a minority government) is taking a ton of heat from the public right now due the housing crisis. Canada is #2 in the world for most unaffordable housing. We’re also the second largest country in the world (behind Russia) for land area yet it’s almost impossible to build housing in this country. We also have extremely high grocery prices, to the point where a lot of people have started cross-border shopping for groceries in the U.S. Anyway, those are the big issues Canadians worry about right now. These sorts of tech laws, as bad as they may be, aren’t even on the radar. People are just waiting for the next election so we can vote for some new people, who will in time cause other problems.
- weq 3y ago
  You realise this government has done one of the biggests things in modern history in regularting cannabis? Lame duck, nah, every single country in the world is feeling these same problems; we had conversatives in AUstralia the last 15yrs (just imagine you harper gov didnt get kicked out, whats what we lived with) and our economy is EXACTLY the same. Taking away party from the debate, and we see the similiarties in our situations. The world is run by corperations who have been yeilding value from the supply chain over the last 40years, creating record profits, concentrating record power, printing record money. THIS IS THE RESULT THAT. No single government of today is to blame, its the system of picking sides that creates collatoral for polticans to barter with coperations for things like censorship, monopolistic access to markets via in/action of laws, etc etc.
  - I_am_uncreative 3y ago
    OK, but why is America's economy so much healthier than Canada's?
    - arsome 3y ago
      Especially when it comes to housing.
  - 3y ago
mitthrowaway2 3y ago
I have no idea why this government suddenly decided that regulating the internet was a top priority amid so many other pressing issues. While the legacy media lobby is an important factor, I can only imagine that it is not entirely disconnected from the information-control challenges encountered during the COVID pandemic.
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latenightcoding 3y ago
Hey hey they are doing way more than that. They are also trying to change the national anthem… again!

momirlan 3y ago

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dang 3y ago
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
- momirlan 3y ago
  i appreciate your concern. the above is my sincere opinion, however I will refrain from posting political comments if that offends you.

dpc050505 3y ago

>Anyone in CA want to comment? Our media landscape is controlled by an oligopoly that has a stronghold on our federal politicians and web neutrality threatens that oligopoly.

transcriptase 3y ago
Precisely. Rogers, Telus, and Bell control practically all Canadian mobile/internet/tv/radio. The bodies that are supposed to regulate them are run by former execs of these companies, and our competition bureau seems to think that anything short of one of them having 100% market share means they don’t need to actually intervene in any mergers or acquisitions. Politicians obviously don’t want to upset three of the most powerful, well poised to influence public perception companies in Canada… which may as well be considered a single entity with respect to them actually competing at all. And so they basically all lobby for the same insane, protectionist, anti-competition, anti-consumer laws and regulations, and nearly always get their way. In recent years this means prodding the government to introduce absurd regulations on the internet.
VirusNewbie 3y ago
right right, the solution to an oligopoly is to have it controlled instead by a single entity that also has a monopoly on violence.

chongli 3y ago

This is a lame duck government. They’ve been in power since 2015 and people are finally getting sick of them. The Liberal party (a minority government) is taking a ton of heat from the public right now due the housing crisis. Canada is #2 in the world for most unaffordable housing. We’re also the second largest country in the world (behind Russia) for land area yet it’s almost impossible to build housing in this country. We also have extremely high grocery prices, to the point where a lot of people have started cross-border shopping for groceries in the U.S. Anyway, those are the big issues Canadians worry about right now. These sorts of tech laws, as bad as they may be, aren’t even on the radar. People are just waiting for the next election so we can vote for some new people, who will in time cause other problems.

weq 3y ago
You realise this government has done one of the biggests things in modern history in regularting cannabis? Lame duck, nah, every single country in the world is feeling these same problems; we had conversatives in AUstralia the last 15yrs (just imagine you harper gov didnt get kicked out, whats what we lived with) and our economy is EXACTLY the same. Taking away party from the debate, and we see the similiarties in our situations. The world is run by corperations who have been yeilding value from the supply chain over the last 40years, creating record profits, concentrating record power, printing record money. THIS IS THE RESULT THAT. No single government of today is to blame, its the system of picking sides that creates collatoral for polticans to barter with coperations for things like censorship, monopolistic access to markets via in/action of laws, etc etc.
- I_am_uncreative 3y ago
  OK, but why is America's economy so much healthier than Canada's?
  - arsome 3y ago
    Especially when it comes to housing.
- 3y ago

mitthrowaway2 3y ago

I have no idea why this government suddenly decided that regulating the internet was a top priority amid so many other pressing issues. While the legacy media lobby is an important factor, I can only imagine that it is not entirely disconnected from the information-control challenges encountered during the COVID pandemic.

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latenightcoding 3y ago

Hey hey they are doing way more than that. They are also trying to change the national anthem… again!