The senators also gave the green light to the multi-billion-dollar federal budget submitted by Secretary of the Treasury Chrystia Freeland in April, for some pandemic-related plans to continue to delay the COVID-19 health panic into the fall. Continued before paved the way.

But the government hopes to pass at least four “priority” bills before Parliament rises. This may be the last meeting before the fall election campaign that is widely expected — and it has failed to secure the conversion treatment ban and the C-10 bill, which In allowing online streaming to contribute more to Canada’s cultural landscape, the Conservative Party sees this as an attack on freedom of speech.

‘It needs to be banned’

C-6, The Conversion Treatment Prohibition Act, criminalizing the dangerous practice of forcibly “converting” LGBTQ people to heterosexuality, was passed in the House of Commons last week, despite the firm opposition of some social conservatives.

More than half of the Conservative Party’s caucus voted against the bill in the House of Commons because some members feared that the legislation would prohibit dialogue between youths and religious leaders and therapists, despite the government’s assurance that this was not the intention.

The Liberal Party insists that any practice aimed at forcibly “transforming” LGBTQ people is barbaric and must be prohibited.

The senators said that they should not be expected to pass such a bill so quickly after receiving it from the House of Commons, because this leaves the House of Lords with little time to conduct due diligence.

Critics of the bill and Conservative Senate leader Don Plett said he “strongly supports the explicit prohibition of coercive conversion therapy”, calling it “unconditionally wrong and needs to be banned.”

But he said that many provinces have banned such pseudoscience, and the federal bill is just an attempt to “make it a wedge problem” by “crude political manipulation”. He said the wording in the bill was “too broad and ambiguous.”

“The bill before us today may be well-intentioned, and the Conservative Party supports it in principle. Abuse or forced conversion therapy should be prohibited, but the bill has major issues that must be resolved,” Platt voted to send the legislation to the Legal Affairs Committee. Further research later this year.

The Conservative Party also strongly opposes the C-10 bill, which the government says is designed to allow digital streaming services to pay for the creation, production and promotion of Canadian content.

Bill C-10 will make online streaming platforms operating in Canada-such as Netflix, Spotify, Crave and Amazon Prime-subject to the Broadcasting Act, allowing the Canadian Radio, Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to supervise them.

‘It needs to pass the shares of the heart’

The Conservative Party believes that the legislation is too strict and threatens the rights and freedoms of Canadians because it will give the CRTC the power to supervise the posts that millions of Canadians upload to social media platforms every day.

Senator David Richards is a Canadian novelist. He was appointed as an independent senator by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in 2017 and is now a member of the conservative Canadian Senate Group (CSG). He told the Senate on Tuesday that C- 10 A serious request was made. Freedom of speech concerns.

“I will always and always oppose any bill that puts freedom of speech in a state of sluggish government oversight,” he said. “And I beg others to do the same. Because I don’t think this bill needs to be amended. However, I think it needs to be passed through inner interests.”

Conservative Senator Leo Housakos said on Monday that despite the government’s request to pass it as soon as possible, the Red Cross will not rush into research. Housakos said that while on the surface the legislation appears to be a reasonable attempt to modernize decades-old regulations and outdated broadcasting laws, there are other “consequences” for allowing CRTC to control certain aspects of the Internet.

“The core problem with the bill is that it uses the regulatory tools specified for a small number of licensed television and radio stations in the 1990s, and attempts to apply them to the broad Internet in the 2020s,” Housakos said.

“In doing so, it gives the CRTC unprecedented decentralization without a clear framework or definition of how to use it,” he said. “We have a government that admitted in December that it wants to crack down on personal websites, podcasts, audiobooks, sports streaming services, PlayStation games, home exercise apps and even adult websites.”

“The lack of clear restrictions on what can be regulated is a fundamental problem of the bill,” he said.

If no elections are held during this period, the Senate and its committees are expected to return sometime in the week of September 21.