Foreign streamers are not driving Canadian content, we need decisive regulation

August 28, 2024

Earlier this month Cartt.ca published “C-11, CRTC, and destabilizing market-driven CanCon,” an opinion piece from Len St-Aubin.

Two years ago St-Aubin and I volleyed back and forth on the merits of the Online Streaming Act as it passed the House of Commons. I suppose the two grumpy old men are back at it again: St-Aubin’s recent column is an indictment of the current regulatory state of affairs and here I am responding.

For the sake of brevity and avoiding repetitious debate I will just focus on his argument about the benevolent impact of the American streamers on Canadian content in the ten unregulated years prior to Bill C-11, what he describes as market driven streamer investments in Canadian television programs.The gravamen of his argument…

Read the full article at Cartt.ca

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Howard Law

I am retired staff of Unifor, the union representing 300,000 Canadians in twenty different sectors of the economy, including 10,000 journalists and media workers. As the former Director of the Media Sector and as an unapologetic cultural nationalist, I have an abiding passion for public policy in Canadian media.

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