{"id":169093,"date":"2026-08-15T11:52:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T11:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/169093\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T11:52:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T11:52:28","slug":"cultural-sector-urges-carney-not-to-scrap-streamers-cancon-financial-contributions-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/169093\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultural sector urges Carney not to scrap streamers\u2019 Cancon financial contributions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of Canadian cultural sector organizations are calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney not to scrap rules requiring foreign streaming companies like Netflix to make financial contributions toward Canadian content.<\/p>\n<p>The government has promised to replace 15-per-cent contributions with government funding, but the groups say that is no substitute.<\/p>\n<p>A letter to Carney signed by multiple organizations, including the Canadian Media Producers Association, says the $600 million in annual funding is not the same as legally enforceable contributions.<\/p>\n<p>It says that, unlike a CRTC-regulated contribution regime, government funding can be changed through the federal budget.<\/p>\n<p>After the CRTC increased contributions for large streaming services to 15 per cent, the government said in June it would issue a new policy directive to the CRTC and instead provide the industry with direct annual funding.<\/p>\n<p>The government later said in a court document it would \u201celiminate\u201d the financial contribution requirement for streamers.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Halifax as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=halifax.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786794748_370_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dozens of Canadian cultural sector organizations are calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney not to scrap rules requiring&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[525,407,111,4122,290,113],"class_list":["post-169093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mark-carney","tag-business","tag-entertainment","tag-mark-carney","tag-media","tag-national","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}