The government and @s_guilbeault is responding to repeated questions about media regulation in the House of Commons by arguing that there are no plans to licence or regulate media organizations. The BTLR proposal goes much further and the language has been chosen carefully. (1/6) 
First, the panel recommended that all media organizations be subject to either a licensing or registration requirement. Government has taken licensing off the table, but not registration. Panel recommended penalties for failure to register. (2/6)
Second, the scope of the report shocking. The panel literally recommends no borders for this regulatory power with the CRTC empowered to target sites and services anywhere that disseminate their content to Canadians. (3/6)
Third, even if certain requirements are off the table for news orgs, there is still regulation including the CRTC intervening in negotiations involving media organizations and discoverability requirements. (4/6)
Fourth, while news organizations are exempt from licensing (but not registration), news aggregators are subject to licensing, levies, and discoverability requirements with the CRTC determining the “trusted” sites to which they must link. (5/6)
Finally, note that the new organizations issue is just the thin edge of the wedge. There is practically nothing in the digital/Internet environment that escapes regulatory capture under this proposal including app stores and operating systems. (6/6)
