The country’s biggest media companies are publicly firing back against calls from the creative and screen-based industries and politicians who want Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly to reconsider the CRTC’s decision to adjust the standards for required spending on Canadian content by TV providers.
The CRTC will take at least two years to fully implement the government’s Online Streaming Act, Bill C-11, once it receives Royal Assent, according to the commission’s chair who spoke to committee...
CRTC chair Ian Scott told conference attendees that his agency has the knowledge base to be able to regulate the streaming giants, after concern was raised that it would be too much for the commission...
Conservative MP John Nater wants the Liberal government to withdraw its Online News Act and instead send the “subject matter” to the House of Commons Heritage Committee, claiming that there are...
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