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[–] 24 points 5 months ago (1 child)

of course, let's give murican corporations a break

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  • Isn’t worst than that ? The CRTC ruled that the media provider should pay and the federal government said « yeah, no. We will pay for them »

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    [–] 8 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    Hopefully this is just a CUSMA bargaining chip, not Carney bending us over.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Carney can go in saying “I removed the DST at the beginning of my term, and the streaming tax recently, what have you done for us?”

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (4 children)

    How does that play into getting us out of CUSMA?

    Or is it just submission?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    It gives us cards to play, I realize Trump thinks the card game is 52 pickup but when trade talks start and it is not Trump making demands it whoever it is who will be doing the trade talks they will realize how backed into a corner they are and how they are likely going to get ketchup stains on their clothes when they get fired.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    Like every other president the US will force whatever they want onto us and our options are to sell out or say no.

    You speak like Trump is an outlier.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    No, I speak as if Carney is the outlier. Maybe it will work, but it probably wont and those taxes will be added to the things people have decided to hold onto. Netflix and the like are going to get expensive. Canadians who have not decided to boycott the US will bend over and take it, while they fund the arts and technology sectors up here.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago

    I love how many people are trying so hard to keep this idea of a clever Carney alive. He’s selling us iut and he was always going to sell us out. He’s not playing 4D chess, he’s rolling over for big, often foreign, business and doesn’t give fat fuck about us.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I'm starting to really hate this fuckin' guy.

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 5 months ago

    We're so fucked.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    You mean customers. Netflix would just pass on the costs.

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    [–] 1 point 5 months ago (3 children)

    I mean, they're going to make us pay it in the end so maybe this will keep the price down a bit? Right?!

    Some of the CRCT rules I don't really agree with. I had the radio on when Ozzy Osbourne died and they couldn't play 100% Ozzy because a certain % had to be Canadian content..... So I went to YouTube.

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    If we didn't have those rules Canadian artists wouldn't get a chance! It's the way scale economies work. We need to protect our own economy.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago

    I can't tell if that's sarcasm or not, but cultural protectionism is in a way anti-progress, it sequesters cultural ideas to be almost 'stuck in time'. But let's be real, Canadian artists, while talented, haven't really been backed by the government to push beyond the North American market, or even beyond its own nation's borders. Look at K-pop and all of what South Korea has managed. It's clear that language isn't really the barrier - but rather what companies and governments are willing to back and put money where it matters.

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