ANALYSIS: MPs play games with Bill C-10

By Howard Law

UNTIL LAST WEEK, PARLIAMENT’S Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage was plodding through the clause-by-clause review of Bill C-10 with no tasty headlines. Perhaps the bill’s revamp of the Broadcasting Act, which would sweep in Netflix, isn’t controversial anymore.

Of course, federal political partisanship is inevitable, as Canadian as bad weather.

And so, we now have the Conservatives’ faux controversy over free expression on social media platforms. In an e-mail blast from CPC MPs across the country, they made their case:

“Recently, the Liberal government introduced Bill C . . .

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