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Good on Canada to protect their media industries instead of letting American firms drown them out.
If you want to do businesses in a country, don't complain when they ask you to invest a bit back.
This is just corporate welfare for our media corporations. If you think this is going to do anything other than just end up flowing up to the executives of Bell, Rogers, and Telus media then you are mistaken.
This isn't meant to be the be all end all solution to every single problem eey ore.
It's a specific mechanism that keeps money in Canada instead of drifting away.
It is objectively a good thing.
I don't see this ending up as anything other than the companies effected increasing their prices to cover themselves (and then some) and then the adjusted revenue being taken as a tax and passed directly to the media industry. We're just funnelling money to executives that will lobby for more money to be funnelled to them instead of them actually making a product that people want to use
I hate being so pessimistic that I agree wholeheartedly with this.
This needs to happen but I don't have faith in the CRTC to do the right thing with the money.
There was a picture a few years back with the chair of the CRTC out for beers with the CEO of Bell - there's just no chance in hell this money is going to actual people without getting really heavily skimmed by those execs.
Complaining about things the government tells them to do on behalf of society is pretty much the foundation of every company's whole business model at this point.
Thanks for explaining, I couldn't parse the headline. It seems so obvious now you did.
Ah never mind me, mumbling...
puts sprinkles in your shoes