The 15% “TAX” headline is COMPLETE LIE. A misrepresentation - READ THE ARTICLE. It is NOT a TAX but a requirement that streamers spend 15% of Canadian revenue to PURCHASE or CREATE CANADIAN CONTENT. This is a Canadian content law. NOT A TAX.

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[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Not good enough, they should be held to our existing content laws instead of this cheap offramp.

[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

US companies are expected to be thankful for the privilege of advertising their products, culture, people, stories and interests to Canadians.

[–] BrickEater@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

I mean yeah they should be. The US doesn't have the right to advertise wherever they want or operate wherever they want.

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 hours ago

So if you want to stream in Canada you are forced to pay 15% of your Canadian revenue to Bell/Rogers to make up for the bite you took from their pie.

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's great that they're busy talking about that while at the same time making mass internet surveillance mandatory with Bill C-22. I wonder if one is meant to distract people from the other and dilute the conversation.

[–] Subscript5676@piefed.ca 2 points 19 hours ago

I remember Carney "parising" Trump on some show, not directly but just to the host, about how Trump's strategy of "flooding the zone" and calling that a good tactic or something. And then some months later, we gpt Bill C-2.

So I don't think it's impossible to say that they aren't learning from that.

[–] NoosFraba@lemmy.ca 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

They state repeatedly that they want to bring us up to the level of our five eyes partners. But that includes the United States.

I suppose Canada has more to gain from such an alliance, since America could likely mop the floor with us in cybersecurity. If we left or they left they'd just look anyway.

I just don't believe we can trust them as far as we can throw them.

But how do the other partners handle their responsibilities with these signals intelligence capabilities? Is it (c-22) truly equal to what they have there? If signalnand Proton etc are all freaking out about it is it worse than what they have in America and new Zealand, UK etc? They operate there still and they are all Five Eyes partners. America is losing all sorts of digital privacy rights etc along with virtually everything else right now. Why do they still operate there?

And we really want to still be sat at yet another table where what passes for American bulldog politicians bark and yap at us? We should be decoupling where ever possible and something this sensitive is definitely a candidate. They don't even respect their own citizens why would they waste time respecting us. Literally its a toss up who I would trust less with this sort of partnership, Russia usa Israel or China. Might as well just hand it over to various billionaires directly

The streamer thing is whatever. Not a tax. Sounds fine to me. Bill c-22 is a whole big issue that more people need to talk about tho.

[–] IMALlama@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Doesn't Canadian FM radio have a similar rule?

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago

Doesn't Canadian FM radio have a similar rule?

All Canadian broadcasters have always been required to contribute towards the creation of Canadian content.

All this is doing is making the American streamers who broadcast in Canada do the same thing.

Thier complaints are that Canada won't let them take all the profits out of the country.

[–] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

They have a percentage of the content that needs to qualify as Canadian, in order to qualify as CanCon (Canadian Content), it needs to pass at least 2 of the 4 MAPL tests.

Music: Are a majority of the songwriters Canadian?
Artist: Is the performer Canadian?
Performance: Was it performed/recorded in Canada?
Lyrics: Were the lyrics written by a Canadian?

Because things like Radio only broadcast, and don't let you choose your own programming, by making them broadcast a certain percentage of Canadian Content, Canadians are already getting a certain percentage of their royalties; No additional fee needed.

When a Canadian act gets big enough, they often stop counting as CanCon. There was a time when Justin Bieber was popular but didn't count because he records songs written by non-Canadians while in the USA.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago

Canadian broadcasters are also required (as a condition of their license) to contribute to the creation of Canadian content. Each time, during the licence renewal, they have to provide detailed information about how they will achieve that.

They can contribute money to a production fund, they can make their own content, they can directly assist and promote Canadian artists, or some combination of those.