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Bill: Loi pour la liberté de la publicité
Details
Submitted by[?]: Les Souterrains
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: January 3943
Description[?]:
| Current policy on the regulation of advertising of legal substances classified as addictive and harmful clashes with the government's policy that all advertising is permitted. Such regulations limit freedom of speech and expression and are unnecessarily paternalistic: if a substance is legal there should be no restrictions on its advertising. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Regulation of advertising of substances classified as addictive and harmful (if general advertising by companies is permitted and sale of the addictive/harmful products is allowed).
Old value:: Advertising is restricted and has to carry strong warning messages.
Current: Advertising is restricted and has to carry strong warning messages.
Proposed: Advertising is legal and unregulated.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:08:45, November 24, 2015 CET | From | Bloc Liberté | To | Debating the Loi pour la liberté de la publicité |
| Message | *Laura Nouvieux, Bloc Liberté's Health spokesperson stands in the Senate* I find it shocking that we should need yet another law to clarify this country's position on advertisement. Thanks to this party, we prevented *any* restrictions on advertising being used, and so we welcome a policy that would bring the advertisement of these legal substances in line with the rest of the law. *Laura Nouvieux takes her seat after dropping her extensive notes on the subject all across the Chamber floor, and upturning an adjacent empty seat* |
| Date | 14:47:16, November 24, 2015 CET | From |  Parti Nationaliste 🌞 | To | Debating the Loi pour la liberté de la publicité |
| Message | The PN would like to invoke the parens patriae principle of the State such that it is the duty of the State to take care of its own citizens. |
| Date | 15:08:41, November 24, 2015 CET | From | Parti Socialiste Démocratique | To | Debating the Loi pour la liberté de la publicité |
| Message | The LMS supports the PN's stance and wonders about the implications of such a bill if it was to pass. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 42 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 58 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Any RP law granting extraordinary "emergency powers" or dictator-like powers to a government must be passed by at least a 2/3rds majority, but (like all RP laws) may always be overturned by a simple majority vote of the legislature. |
| Random quote: "Freedom is not America's gift to the world. It is God's gift to humanity. " - George W. Bush |