Good on Canada to protect their media industries instead of letting American firms drown them out.
If you want to do businesses in a country, don’t complain when they ask you to invest a bit back.
This is just corporate welfare for our media corporations. If you think this is going to do anything other than just end up flowing up to the executives of Bell, Rogers, and Telus media then you are mistaken.
This isn’t meant to be the be all end all solution to every single problem eey ore.
It’s a specific mechanism that keeps money in Canada instead of drifting away.
It is objectively a good thing.
I don’t see this ending up as anything other than the companies effected increasing their prices to cover themselves (and then some) and then the adjusted revenue being taken as a tax and passed directly to the media industry. We’re just funnelling money to executives that will lobby for more money to be funnelled to them instead of them actually making a product that people want to use
Some of that money goes into producing Canadian Content which employs Canadian artists and the broader Canadian arts industry. That’s better then that money going to Hollywood and supporting the American arts industry.
Either way the benefits are just trickling down rather than going directly to artists, but with these laws more money stays local in Canada rather than going to the US.
You are arguing about whether that money should trickle down or be given directly to artists and that is quite frankly, completely irrelevant given that both options here (the rates increasing or the rates not increasing), don’t effect that.
I hate being so pessimistic that I agree wholeheartedly with this.
This needs to happen but I don’t have faith in the CRTC to do the right thing with the money.
There was a picture a few years back with the chair of the CRTC out for beers with the CEO of Bell - there’s just no chance in hell this money is going to actual people without getting really heavily skimmed by those execs.
If you want to do businesses in a country, don’t complain when…
Complaining about things the government tells them to do on behalf of society is pretty much the foundation of every company’s whole business model at this point.
Thanks for explaining, I couldn’t parse the headline. It seems so obvious now you did.
Ah never mind me, mumbling…
puts sprinkles in your shoes
This might be good if done right.
When I was a kid, Canadian Content was a pejorative. There was a certain kind CBC drama that tended to be very samey. The historical dramas they produced were watched by the people with no other channels available, the people that wrote them, and that’s it.
But if this money was put to making actual entertainment, not prestige works, then it might actually build up Canadian soft power like anime supports Japan.
15% of the $0 I pay seems about right.
Queue extra Trump tariffs…
I wonder where he keeps his scythe. I know you like to keep yours next to where your heart used to be.
