YouTube says user-generated content, such as cooking videos made in people91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™s kitchens, could be regulated by an online streaming law, despite assurances from the heritage minister that this will not happen.

Speaking publicly for the first time about Bill C-11, Jeanette Patell, head of government affairs for YouTube Canada, says the draft law91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™s wording gives the broadcast regulator scope to oversee home videos.

She told the National Culture Summit in Ottawa that the bill91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™s text contradicts Minister Pablo Rodriguez91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™s public assurances that it does not cover user-generated content, such as cat videos.

YouTube says it accepts that full-length professional music videos should fall within the bill91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™s scope, but it wants the legal text of the bill to accurately reflect the minister91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™s insistence that amateur videos will be exempt.

A spokesman for the minister says the government has been very clear that user-generated content does not come within the scope of the bill and the text reflects that.

The bill would make online streaming platforms, such as Netflix, Spotify and YouTube, promote a certain amount of Canadian content and give the broadcast regulator wider powers over digital platforms.

91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ”Marie Woolf, The Canadian Press