{"id":73808,"date":"2026-06-04T03:11:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T03:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/73808\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T03:11:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T03:11:32","slug":"canadian-pm-flips-streamer-revenue-raising-policy-after-us-industry-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/73808\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian PM Flips Streamer Revenue Raising Policy After US Industry Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMark Carney<\/a> and his government insist their sudden shift today away from a regulatory reach into the pockets of Netflix<\/a>, Disney+<\/a>, Amazon Prime Video and other U.S. streamers operating in Canada<\/a> has nothing to do with ongoing trade negotiations with the Trump administration, but if you buy that, I have a Great Lake or two to sell you. <\/p>\n

\n\tTwo weeks ago the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission\u00a0raised Canadian content contributions for streamers from 5% to 15% to create a $2 billion fund<\/a> to \u201censure that traditional and online broadcasters contribute to the creation of Canadian and Indigenous content in an equitable way that reflects their size and business models.\u201d Wednesday, the Great North\u2019s Heritage Department announced the new-ish policy would \u201cimpose costs\u201d on the Yankee streamers that \u201ccould ultimately fall on Canadian consumers through higher prices.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFresh off a NYC visit last week with bankers, financiers and CEOs like Netflix\u2019s Ted Sarandos<\/a>, ex-Bank of Canada and Bank of England boss Carney added his voice to the U-turn by saying now \u201cis not the time to raise the cost for Canadians.\u201d <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Streamers<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGetty<\/p>\n

\n\tAmong Opposition politicians and even some of Carney\u2019s own MPs, today\u2019s shift is seen as a cynical and perhaps ultimately useless effort ease some of the strain that the 2023 passed Online Streaming Act has brought to the quest for a new free trade agreement with tariff loving Trump. <\/p>\n

\n\tWhile Carney likes to talk tough when it comes to America, it didn\u2019t escape the attention of many that the new policy was unveiled less than 24 hours after Canadian Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc sat down with U.S. Trade Rep Jamieson Greer in DC. The already trimmed down Online Streaming Act, which orders all streamers that score revenues of more than $25 million annually in Canada to fork over some of that dough for Canadian flicks, shows like Heated Rivalry<\/a>, and information program, has been designated as an impediment to any deal by MAGA officials.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Heated<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tHudson Williams & Connor Storrie face off in Heated Rivalry<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSabrina Lantos\/HBO Max<\/p>\n

\n\tFollowing a harsh criticism by industry water carriers the Motion Picture Association<\/a> that the original May 21 percentage rise \u201cundermines the open, market-based system,\u201d today\u2019s reversal of fortune by Team Carney pleased the Toronto branch plant of the MPA \u2014 a bit. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cToday\u2019s announcement acknowledges that the CRTC\u2019s proposed framework for investment obligations needs to change,\u201d said MPA-Canada prez and Managing Director Michele Austin. \u201cWe are encouraged by the government\u2019s commitment to new policy directions.\u00a0While certain concerns about the Online Streaming Act\u2019s framework for global streamers remain unresolved, we look forward to engaging with leaders in Ottawa to develop a new approach to supporting Canadian stories.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCarney\u2019s government intend to soon issue new guidelines to the semi-independent CRTC about how far they can and cannot go with the Online Streaming Act and raising money for CanCon. Not that it has anything to do with trade talks\u2026I\u2019m heading to the cottage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark Carney and his government insist their sudden shift today away from a regulatory reach into the pockets…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,29844,162,29845,8166,111,24547,938,29846],"class_list":["post-73808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-canada","tag-disney","tag-donald-trump","tag-electionline","tag-heated-rivalry","tag-mark-carney","tag-motion-picture-association","tag-netflix","tag-ted-sarandos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73808","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=73808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}