Fri Apr 1, 2022 – 4:52 pm EDT
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez announced Wednesday that he appointed a 12-member “expert advisory group on online safety” panel who will be tasked with giving the government advice on how to regulate the internet via new legislation.
According to Blacklock’s Reporter, Rodriguez said he is open to “all ideas “with the help of the panel, which will be staffed with professors from major Canadian universities.
“The only thing we want is to do the right thing, is to make it right, is to make it happen,” Rodriguez said.
Rodriguez said when asked if such a bill when introduced would infringe on Canadians’ charter rights that “Freedom of speech is a fundamental right.”
Rodriguez then bizarrely claimed his bill in some ways will “really help freedom of speech.”
He also said his “expert” panel must hold all their meetings “in the next two months” before “we will take that information, work on a bill and table it as soon as possible.”
Rodriguez’s new “expert” panel comes amid the controversy surrounding Bill C-11, An Act to Amend the Broadcasting Act and to Make Related and Consequential Amendments to other
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