Consultants are elevating considerations that the physique the federal authorities needs to manage streaming companies lacks the experience to take action.

    

The federal government final week launched the On-line Streaming Act, which might topic streaming firms akin to YouTube and Netflix to the identical guidelines as Canadian broadcasters.

    

The invoice would put the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Fee in control of regulating streaming companies in addition to conventional broadcasters.

    

Michael Geist, Canada Analysis Chair in web and e-commerce legislation, questioned whether or not the C-R-T-C has the technical experience to do that.

    

He says Invoice C-11 would give the physique sweeping jurisdiction over audiovisual companies all over the world.

    

The Web Society, a bunch that advocates for an open and safe web, says giving the C-R-T-C energy to manage such a world useful resource because the web reveals the federal government would not perceive how the online works.

    

The C-R-T-C says it welcomes the federal government’s tabling of a brand new invoice that addresses the altering digital broadcasting atmosphere whereas modernizing the regulator’s enforcement powers.