You mean customers. Netflix would just pass on the costs.
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 »
It’s disappointing, but at the same time I don’t have a big problem with the government stepping up subsidies for the industry.
I just wish it was a “why don’t we have both” situation.
So you want Canadian Netflix users to pay a fee to watch US shows they want to watch, to finance Canadian shows they don’t want to watch.
Go have a look at how many Canadian people are in American media. I’d prefer that talent stay here and supporting Canadian arts is a crucial way to help that happen.
of course, let’s give murican corporations a break
cAnAdA StROnK!
I’m starting to really hate this fuckin’ guy.
Just starting? He’s given us so many reasons
Hopefully this is just a CUSMA bargaining chip, not Carney bending us over.
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.
What’s the difference?
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?”
How does that play into getting us out of CUSMA?
Or is it just submission?
Boo!
We’re so fucked.
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.
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.
Protect our economy but sell every business to Americans at the drop of a hat.
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.
