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It needs to be fed to a dumpster. Even Peter Menzies, former vice-chair of the CRTC and retired editor-publisher of Postmedia’s Calgary Herald, agrees. “Overall (Bill C-10) ensures that going forward all Canadians communicating over the internet will do so under the guise of the state,” he said Wednesday during a Macdonald-Laurier Institute webinar. “In doing so, this opens a door that, in my view, should remain closed.” Worse, he said, “the government itself doesn’t seem to understand what it is doing.” In the Senate, it is Hall of Fame broadcaster Pamela Wallin, once a senior news force on CTV, who is leading the charge and vowing to stop Bill C-10 from becoming law. ....
It needs to be fed to a dumpster. Even Peter Menzies, former vice-chair of the CRTC and retired editor-publisher of Postmedia’s Calgary Herald, agrees. “Overall (Bill C-10) ensures that going forward all Canadians communicating over the internet will do so under the guise of the state,” he said Wednesday during a Macdonald-Laurier Institute webinar. “In doing so, this opens a door that, in my view, should remain closed.” Worse, he said, “the government itself doesn’t seem to understand what it is doing.” In the Senate, it is Hall of Fame broadcaster Pamela Wallin, once a senior news force on CTV, who is leading the charge and vowing to stop Bill C-10 from becoming law. ....
Four senators have been chosen to sit on the committee by three of the four Senate groups. But they re all waiting for the Conservative Senate caucus to name its single member, despite a unanimously passed motion requiring all Senate groups to choose their members by the end of the day last Friday. The delay revolves around a dispute over who the Senate s committee co-chair should be. Sen. Pierre Dalphond, a former judge chosen to represent the Progressive Senate Group on the committee, says Conservative Senate Leader Don Plett is refusing to name the Tory senator unless there s a guarantee that person will also be named committee co-chair an assurance other Senate groups are not prepared to give. ....
Senate wrangling over co-chair holds up parliamentary review of assisted dying law Poll Yes The Senate of Canada building and Senate Chamber are pictured in Ottawa on Monday, Feb. 18, 2019. A long-awaited, and legally required parliamentary review of Canada s medically assisted dying regime is set to go except for the Conservative Senate caucus, which has yet to name its member of the committee. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick OTTAWA – Wrangling in the Senate over who will co-chair a special joint committee is holding up the start of a long-awaited, legally required, parliamentary review of Canada’s assisted dying regime. The various parties in the House of Commons have chosen 10 MPs to sit on the committee, which is to examine whether medical assistance in dying should be expanded to include mature minors and advance requests, among other important issues. ....