The Broadcasting and Telecommunications panel’s recommendations: brave, practical and with no ‘Netflix tax’ GlobeArts
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.You have to hand it to Janet Yale and her team of crackerjack lawyers and policy wonks: After years of bland talk and false starts from various functionaries, their thorough review of Canada’s broadcasting and telecommunications legislation is both brave and practical. If implemented, it would completely rewrite the Canadian content regime and bring foreign players to the table.
However, the panel is recommending that the foreign services be required to collect the HST from their Canadian subscribers. And, more controversially, that they be made to spend a percentage of revenue on genuinely Canadian content: That’s stuff written, directed, performed and produced by Canadians; U.S. shows that happen to be shooting in Canada need not apply.
The panel divides all players, old and new, into three categories with corresponding obligations. There are curators such as CTV or Netflix, who would be required to spend a certain percentage of the revenue they raised in Canada on programming Canadian content – and ensuring it was discoverable.
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