Bill C-10 · 43th Parliament · Justin Trudeau
An Act to amend the Broadcasting Act and to make related and consequential amendments to other Acts
Government bill. Died when Parliament ended.
- IntroducedNov. 3, 2020
- Debated in principleFeb. 16, 2021
- Studied by a committeeDone
- Passed its first chamberJune 21, 2021
- Passed the second chamberNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Leading supporters
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- Justin TrudeauPrime Minister
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What it set out to do
On 3 November 2020, the Minister of Canadian Heritage introduced Bill C-10, An Act to amend the Broadcasting Act and to make related and consequential amendments to other Acts, in the House of Commons and it was given first reading. Bill C-10 amends amends the Broadcasting Act to, among other things, (a) add online undertakings — undertakings for the transmission or retransmission of programs over the Internet — as a distinct class of broadcasting undertakings; (b) update the broadcasting policy for Canada set out in section 3 of that Act by, among other things, providing that the Canadian broadcasting system should serve the needs and interests of all Canadians — including Canadians from racialized communities and Canadians of diverse ethnocultural backgrounds — and should provide opportunities for Indigenous persons, programming that reflects Indigenous cultures and that is in Indigenous languages, and programming that is accessible without barriers to persons with disabilities; (c) specify that the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (the “Commission”) must regulate and supervise the Canadian broadcasting system in a manner that (i) takes into account the…
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