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COMMENTARY: No, the Online Streaming Act doesn’t ask us to “just trust the CRTC”


BILL C-11, THE  Online Streaming Act, rightly raises important questions about transparency and trust — but not necessarily the ones that its critics would have you think. I believe that C-11 is generally a good law that does what it purports to do: modernize the Broadcasting Act to ensure that online streamers and platforms play by the same rules as Canadian broadcasters do when it comes to investing in and promoting Canadian content. The bill supports Canadian jobs and Canadian creative voices in a space that is dominated by foreign Big Tech firms and a tsunami of content from the massive American...