Bill C-11 is awaiting a final vote in the Senate, and is likely to become law in the next several weeks. But even after almost a year of debate and revisions, some content creators say the proposed law is too ambiguous, and they have no new assurances about what it will mean for them.
It's been years since he sat in a classroom studying the way a bill becomes law, but over the last several months Nathan Kennedy has taken on an unexpected political crash course as the proposed online-streaming legislation winds its way through the House of Commons and Senate.
In 2021, he started earning enough money talking about personal finance online that he quit his full-time job as a district manager. "The government hasn't been able to provide any meaningful information to industry about the actual application of this proposed law," said Kai Hutchence, CEO of Massive Corporation Game Studios in Regina.
"A lot of people have some sort of existential fear around being limited in some sense by some governing body," Kennedy said.In the past year, it's become common for content creators to lean on one another for advice. Some have flown to Ottawa to speak to lawmakers. Others have even contemplated moving to the United States.
"The anxiety that has provoked in the creator cannot be understated," said J.J. McCullough, an LGBTQ content creator, from his home in Vancouver. "I became popular by making content people want to watch, it's as simple as that. That's the only way you become popular on YouTube," said McCullough, who voiced his concerns about the law to Parliament.
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