It would be better to put a 20% tariff on US online services sold in Canada and let (an appointed agency of) the government allocate the money to Canadian content producers. If it's left to US streamers to decide what to fund, it will be thinly veiled US content and propaganda produced by some US company operating in Canada, charging exorbitant rates to achieve the required 15% and sending all profits back to the US.
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Carney walked back Trudeau‘s streaming content thingy. But that did not stop me from cancelling all of my US services, and sticking to CBC.
Oh and I sail the high seas for all the other media I want, I stopped back in the early to mid 2000’s but it is amazing how far it has come since than. There are apps that you can get that follow TV shows and download them after they have aired automatically, movies can be automatically downloaded on schedules the whole shabang.
Discriminatory? Really??
Canadian broadcasters have always been required to spend a portion of their revenue on supporting Canadian made content.
Would these be the same "major" studios that takes advantage of our government and provincial film and television production credits provide refundable tax credits?
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