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New requirements could raise as much as $830 million for Canadian content from web giants by 2023, the government said.
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Canada to regulate Netflix, Disney+, Spotify, etc with $$$ penalties — to ensure platforms experiencing revenue boom face same rules as normal media
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This is the dumbest thing they could do is instead of reforming CRTC. Prof Michael Geist has many article on this subject. I feel like the Liberal are really out of touch with this one. And add the vapour type disappearing promise that was the 25% less fees from telecom companies, I believe Liberals are too dependent on telecom donations.
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I think they are still adding. They just locked in Vancouver long term as one of their three international production hubs.
And in addition to this news, there is also the potential Tech Tax that Canada and other countries like France are looking at. If you make profit off of business revenues from local citizens, then they should be taxed for it.
Watch the CRTC end up only allowing Starlink in some regions where big telecoms don't care about expanding into. As soon as Starlink starts hinting at non-remote regions they're going to change their tune.
I mean, fuck all the companies? lol
Netflix opened a Vancouver studio hoping to avoid this, so both sides were playing the game.
Netflix opened a Vancouver studio hoping to avoid this, so both sides were playing the game.
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I mean the Canadian entertainment industry does.
I don't think this is the right way but I get it.
I am even surprised they allowed StarLink, don't forget the reason Internet resellers like TekSavvy lost the cost battle after CRTC ruled in their favour because the government basically intervened. That was because ROBELUS threatened to not invest in rural Internet. This government is really pissing me off on anti competitive support of the telecom industries.
They do but does Mr. and Ms. John Smith care though? Only the more conservatives.
Stop fucking around with the 2019 wholesale tariffs already. >.>
What. The push for Canadian-made content doesn't come from conservatives. At least in Quebec, it is progressives who want this, mainly the art and entertainment industry folks + people worried about American cultural hegemony.
I never heard of conservatives favoring that, they always say let people decide what they want to watch, "don't use our tax money to make TV shows", free market, etc. Same reason they want to abolish the CBC.
Disappointed to see people slamming this. We always need more Canadian content, and we need to continue growing Canadian media industries. This is not an extreme measure considering just how much money leaves our country on streaming media. Not caring about where media is made (as at least one person in this thread has expressed) is basically resigning to even more of our talent moving abroad to work on US media.
It would be great. Streaming companies are rich as hell and spreading their money to grow smaller countries' media is only a good thing.
Yeah I don't see how this is bad. Canadian content isn't cringe worthy, look at Schitt's Creek.
France has the same system already in place and it didn't seem to affect us in any significant way outside of having Netflix and Amazon producing content locally.
I don't see it being a bad thing in Canada as well.
I don't see it being a bad thing in Canada as well.
The "theory" is that this protects Crave. Except that Crave is owned by Bell and they're evil.
This is why this is more of a "let them fight" situation for me, because there are no good guys. lol
As a Canadian horror film producer, it would be kind of nice if the streaming giants had some kind of quota of Canadian content.
Our government is already giving heavy tax credits to keep our industry alive. It would be nice to have a little autonomy to have Canadian content created and distributed.
Even CBC that creates hit shows like Schitts Creek gets heavy subsidizing from our government.
If I got to make a horror flick on Netflix I promise you'd all like it too 😎
Our government is already giving heavy tax credits to keep our industry alive. It would be nice to have a little autonomy to have Canadian content created and distributed.
Even CBC that creates hit shows like Schitts Creek gets heavy subsidizing from our government.
If I got to make a horror flick on Netflix I promise you'd all like it too 😎
I'm really confused as to why people think this is bad? This is only good for Canadian-based artists and industries. If they want to make a ton of money from us, they should throw at least some of it back into our communities.
For those wondering why this can be bad (I have no opinion on this because of what follows):
1- It distorts supply and demand dynamics: companies have to produce the content not because people demand it but because they have to.
2- To meet the needed quotas, broadcasters can simply produce or buy the cheapest content imaginable, and not care whatsoever about whether said content will be popular or not. It's basically like a complicated tax of which the money goes in the entertainment industry's pockets, instead of being an actual tax that the government could then use the money from to do whatever else.
3- The entertainment industry CAN work as a cartel, especially when they are guaranteed to be given money. With no guarantees on the government's part that the industry won't arrange itself to favor a handful of production studios/turn into a cartel of sorts, it is suddenly the production houses that have an interest in cutting costs as much as possible to put as much of the money they receive regardless of the quality of their productions. In such a scenario, it would be up to the broadcasters to try and get around them to obtain quality productions, such as make their own productions, but this is more costly than just letting production studios compete with one another to offer the best content.
Personally, I prefer taxes over complicated regulations which are often contradictory or double-edged swords (if good at all), because raising revenue is simple and you can then use it for whatever you feel it should be used for, be it healthcare, education, whatever.
Distorting supply and demand mechanics is always likely to backfire, whereas taxes are much less likely to be counter-productive, are simple to implement, and like I said you are free to do anything with the raised revenue so you have far more flexibility, especially in a world where priorities can quickly change.
If we wanted to favor the creation of Canadian content, I think we need to identify what makes it costly to create content, and find ways to get those costs down massively.
Edit: I am very curious about how YouTube will end up down the line. Wouldn't be surprising that it would affect it too. Next thing you know, "YouTube is not available in Canada." And now all of a sudden, interest in the platform drops among Canadians, and any Canadian who would have produced content for it can't anymore, because YT was not meeting some arbitrary quota.
1- It distorts supply and demand dynamics: companies have to produce the content not because people demand it but because they have to.
2- To meet the needed quotas, broadcasters can simply produce or buy the cheapest content imaginable, and not care whatsoever about whether said content will be popular or not. It's basically like a complicated tax of which the money goes in the entertainment industry's pockets, instead of being an actual tax that the government could then use the money from to do whatever else.
3- The entertainment industry CAN work as a cartel, especially when they are guaranteed to be given money. With no guarantees on the government's part that the industry won't arrange itself to favor a handful of production studios/turn into a cartel of sorts, it is suddenly the production houses that have an interest in cutting costs as much as possible to put as much of the money they receive regardless of the quality of their productions. In such a scenario, it would be up to the broadcasters to try and get around them to obtain quality productions, such as make their own productions, but this is more costly than just letting production studios compete with one another to offer the best content.
Personally, I prefer taxes over complicated regulations which are often contradictory or double-edged swords (if good at all), because raising revenue is simple and you can then use it for whatever you feel it should be used for, be it healthcare, education, whatever.
Distorting supply and demand mechanics is always likely to backfire, whereas taxes are much less likely to be counter-productive, are simple to implement, and like I said you are free to do anything with the raised revenue so you have far more flexibility, especially in a world where priorities can quickly change.
If we wanted to favor the creation of Canadian content, I think we need to identify what makes it costly to create content, and find ways to get those costs down massively.
Edit: I am very curious about how YouTube will end up down the line. Wouldn't be surprising that it would affect it too. Next thing you know, "YouTube is not available in Canada." And now all of a sudden, interest in the platform drops among Canadians, and any Canadian who would have produced content for it can't anymore, because YT was not meeting some arbitrary quota.
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The HBO+Crave deal certainly isn't a good thing if you care about content quality (Crave doesn't even know what 4k is) or stopping Bell's coffers from growing even larger.
And that show spent its entire run hiding the fact that it takes place in Canada while name dropping US cities every episode and doing things like saying the drinking age is 21 to trick the viewer it's American. There needs to be rules against that when our tax dollars are involved. Canada gets no credit and no gain in soft power that way.
It put money in a production company's pockets. See my points above.
It's a stupid complicated way of putting a tax in place, but instead of raising the revenue for the government, it goes straight to a specific industry that then does whatever it wants.
A Canadian production company that pays taxes and pays wages in Canada, that have income tax charged by the federal and provincial government. If you don't think these companies are paying enough in taxes then that's a separate argument, otherwise I don't understand your point.
Good one, you caught an American trying to fake into Canadian citizenship and come over. Hey it's not over yet, Biden most likely will win so stay there and don't bring your covid here, thank you very much.
All it is going to do is raise costs for viewers who won't even watch this stuff in the first place. The Canadian government needs to accept it has some form of movie business because it's cheaper to film here and places like BC can be basically any major western metro city in the world. Now prices will be jacked up to where folks may just go, "eh, cheaper to go with a Internet + cable bundle". This isn't designed to get more Canadian content but more cable subscribers.
He said there should be rules regulating the content of the show when our tax dollars subsidize it because otherwise what is the point if it is indistinguishable from American content. I said the subsidy is just to put money in the Canadian production companies' pockets. It is not trying to make shows with a Canadian identity, which would require a definition and some editorial review process.
I say stop these regulations, just tax companies, use the money for whatever is actually a priority.
Is creating Canadian jobs not a good enough priority? Just because we're Canadian doesn't mean we have to make strictly in-your-face Canadian content either.
To be fair neither does HBO/HBO MAX right now.
I think this is largely a positive as it will mean more local and international productions for Canada. It's my understanding that the percentage is just for money earned it Canada and not internationally so the more Canadians subscribe to a service the more Canadian productions there are. I'd like to see similar measures around the world (much better than quotas like what they are proposing in the EU in my opinion)
Ideally they would just product some of their content here. I wonder if they regret cancelling Travelers now(it was 100% Canadian).
Trailer Park Boys about to get paid.
Somebody being back Stargate already!
Yes, like to staff understaffed hospitals, more teachers, clean the environment. Not « here is money going in the pockets of random production companies, and then we have no control over what actually happens, hopefully it will create jobs ».
