Flap Them Elbows

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Stephen Taylor;

On May 21, the CRTC issued Broadcasting Regulatory Policy 2026-96, ordering Netflix, Amazon, Disney+, Apple TV+, Spotify, and every other major streaming platform operating in Canada to hand over 15% of their Canadian revenues. The money will be distributed to Canadian content funds, news organizations, French-language production, and Indigenous media through a complex allocation framework that the CRTC alone will administer. […]

Within twenty-four hours, the Motion Picture Association — representing Netflix, Disney, Paramount, Sony Pictures, Universal, Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios, and Warner Bros. Discovery — issued its strongest condemnation of a Canadian regulatory decision in the organization’s history[…]

The U.S. Ambassador to Canada followed. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce followed. A Congressional bill threatening Section 301 retaliation was already in play. The CUSMA joint review deadline is July 1. And Canadian Identity and Culture Minister Marc Miller — whose government created the Online Streaming Act — responded by distancing himself from his own regulator, saying he was “reviewing” the decision and “carefully assessing its impacts.”

The CRTC picked this fight six weeks before the most consequential trade negotiation in a generation. It tripled a levy that is already being challenged in Federal Court. It did so to protect an industry that has never been more profitable. And the Canadian government is now pretending it had nothing to do with it.

38 Replies to “Flap Them Elbows”

  1. IN other words, two middle fingers up to you, Canadian government.
    Meanwhile, Iran is still trying to charge million-dollar tolls for all oil tankers transiting the Strait of Hormuz.

    1. Ouch! Your comparison is pathetically accurate. The Canadian government wants to seize the airwaves just as surely as Iran has seized the waterways. Pirates. Terrorist Governments.

      But that’ll show Trump who’s boss!

      Yeah, yeah … Trump has LOST to both Iran and Canada. Sure.

  2. I think this post is hybrid of “Elbows” and “Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors”. They do have a way to make MAID attractive, don’t they?

    1. retards lack analytical skills, memory, pattern recognition, ability to plan.
      all this is DELIBERATE. it may be very negative, buuuuuut from whose perspective? the elites? hmmm?
      and ALL OF IT with the willing (and presently vital, you wait, just wait) cooperation of the electorati.
      so, no no no. its the VOTERS the ‘retards’. and they outnumber the ‘electees’ and the rest of us.
      ergo, among other things, yo, AB, GET THE H OUT WHILE YOU CAN this ‘post national state’ just put
      a ROPE around its OWN neck, climbed up on the ‘horse’ readily and clearly VOLUNTARILY all the while
      praising the cult leader marx carnage. (p.s. he gonna save us from the looming disaster Liberals . . . . . . .
      created?)

  7. That’s how you fight Canada … well … and lose battles. But at least we have our dignity. Oh, we don’t? Well maple syrup and Tim Hortons for sure. And the Europeans just love us. They don’t? But surely the Brits. They’ve changed? They’re no longer British? What about Ukraine? For sure Palestine. And the trannies. We’ll rebuild our team. We just need a decent logo.

    1. I think I have not stepped in a Tim Hortons in over 2 decades. No disrespect to Tim Horton himself, but cannot stand the place and hate the coffee. Oh, well.

      1. “I think I have not stepped in a Tim Hortons in over 2 decades.”

        So?
        I’ll bet that you didn’t know that Tim Horton’s was bought by a Brazilian corporation more than 20 years ago.
        The Brazilian corporation bought it from an American one.
        Ignorant Canadians have wrongly been pretending that Tim Horton’s has some patriotic value for 25 years.

        1. uhuh. aaaaaand considering the namesake been deceased for some *52 years now*
          why all the sentimentality?
          seriously.
          and consulting the wiki entry apparently he was loopy and ‘intoxinated’
          when he zippidy doo dadded the Pantera.
          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Horton
          p.s. not ‘following the game’ l didnt realize for some time l lived a 6 or 7 minute walking distance from the crash site whilst on Romko in st catharines (with an ‘a’)
          no sign of a memorial however, but gosh we Canduhians worship our
          political and sport hee rows eh?

          1. Yes.

            “And we love our TIMMIES!!”, “Can’t start my day without my TIMMIES!”

            God, how I despise that word used like this.

            mhb23re

  8. Trump Derangement Syndrome in full display.
    15% of revenues? This was needlessly offensive, to say the least.
    Still not sure what these malfeasant actions hope to accomplish, it will be nothing good.
    These are the actions of amateurs.
    The US holds ALL the cards in trade negotiations. Period.
    Any other position is delusional. Welcome to Canadastan.

    1. Great analysis, Anders. I’m sure these companies are dying to do business in Canada at a loss. It’s quite like the California tax model for gasoline where Chevron makes ~ 0.63 a gallon, and the state government makes 0.61 a gallon for doing nothing and 2.25% sales tax on top of that.

    1. The self-proclaimed “elite” would be smugly satisfied. They were the ones who put the final nail in the HNIC coffin when they had Don Cherry banished for speaking truth to liberal bullshït on allowing Turd World immigrants into Canada who wouldn’t wear a poppy or give a second thought to those who gave their lives for this miserable excuse for a libshït country.

      Wish I had snapped a pic of the amazed faces on my neighbors years ago at a party when someone asked me if I saw some typical liberal political propaganda “documentary” on the CBC. I said, “I never watch CBC out of principle”.

      “What principle is that?”, one of the snide karens asked.

      “The principle that the government can force me to pay for the Commie Broadcasting Corp, but they can’t force me to watch it”, I smiled.

      I think I left that party early.

      mhb23re

  11. I loathe that Orwellian term, “Canadian Content”. Utter fascism in play, and cutting the cord and using Kodi was all the sweeter knowing I didn’t send an extra penny to fund 3rd-rate TV and musical hacks.

    How many flavors of Anne of Green Gables or some stupid hockey drama do we need before yielding to a national urge to throw up? Other examples of stunning cancon sh ït:

    – The Beachcombers
    – Little Mosque on the Prairie
    – He Shoots, He Scores!
    – The Rene Simard Show
    – Corner Gas

    Ugh. Pure swill. And speaking of swill, you can thank cancon rules for permitting the audible nails-on-chalkboard assault upon your ears from the likes of jane siberry (“and Mimiiiiii on the beeeeeeeach…”) and pretty much anything by the tragically hip.

    I’d not blame the US content distributors if they doubled canuck subscription prices or better yet, pulled their services from this socialist liberal-infested craphole of a country. Maybe then the Walking Stupid liberal voters might wise up and blame their liberal masters, but probably not.

    “Govern me HARDER, Daddy!” is the national brain-dead mantra of this country, as Gad Saad, says.

    We deserve everything we get. In spades.

    mhb23re

      1. Actually, I liked a few of morisette’s tunes on Jagged Little Pill, but didn’t follow her after that.

        I’d add, “The Trouble With Tracy” and “The Starlost”.

        Abominable.

        1. And I’d remove “Corner Gas”, one of the best programmes ever made. And I’d show some respect for Jane Siberry who was about the best act in the world in her time.

  12. Given the culturally crucial role that our Canadian content industry provides, it is noble and reasonable for the Leadership of Our Nation to shoulder a few burdens and withstand the reptilian capitalists of the Southern Barbarians and take a few regulatory lumps. I am sure the funds can be found. Perhaps cut the Defense budget: take the toys from the boys, eh what? Slap some taxes on the settler colonialists in Alberta. The good ship Diversity needs to keep on flying.

  13. Typical Liberal bureaucracy.

    Shallow thinkers who’s only way to make money is thru taxation.

    Reward mediocrity, stiffle creativity by handing money over to the creators of the content allowed for viewer consumption.

    The CRTC are too tone deaf to realize that most of the content consumed on the internet is from independent creators. Far more entertaining, informative and inspirational.

    Most of the content by the major studios is occult in content. Some is subtle but becoming more blatant by the day.

    Cut it all down and spark it up.

    1. Don’t be stupid.
      Most of Netflix is time filler. Boring, contrived woke crap.
      Good shows are rare. Notably, Peaky Blinders and Hell on Wheels. Too bad Deadwood isn’t there, it’s HBO, another woke, farleft BS Hollyweird perv network.

      1. Fck TV. Read books.
        For visual effects, look at the sky, the horizen, and some trees and notice birds.
        Soundtrack? Birdsong, wind rustling through trees, children laughing.
        I am not Thoreau,,,just a guy whose TV broke years ago and who lives rural enough.

      3. BtS –

        Don’t bother. That kind of stupidity is hardwired.

        Liking or “hating” technology is more personal preference than age: I know 90yr-olds who are great with PC (not the fastest typists, but hey, they’re 90+) and 20-somethings who are PC boneheads.

        I’m at the very end of “boomer” era, close to Gen X. And I’ve worked more PC OS, android boxes, Linux setups and IPTV configs than james has ever seen. I design and manage complex cloud Power BI models and local simplex and Monte Carlo simulations. I’m streaming all manner of movies, shows and sports from different platforms without a hitch. And all set up and administered by me… seemlessly.

        Someone saying “Millennials are just lazy and don’t want to work” would be as equally stupid as what was said above.

        mhb23re

  15. It would serve this country right if some of the streamers cut off the services. What choice do they have? And, what tools does the CRTC truly have to actually penalize Netflix, Disney, Amazon, Paramount, Hulu, SiriusXM, Pandora, Spotify, et al, for non-payment of revenues?
    Not so long ago, the Digital Services Tax was applied, then withdrawn upon Trump’s directive to Betaboy Carnage.
    This is the DST Redux.
    The only streaming left would be Crave and Stingray. Forget Crave, and Stingray is just mostly garbage songs and CANCON.
    This won’t stand at all. It’s more posturing.
    Gotta say, most streaming movie/TV is crap anyways, woke Hollyweird trash.

  16. “Everything government says is a lie and everything it has it has stolen” – Friedrich Nietzsche

    The CRTC is a state organ that pretends to protect Canadian culture that the state has done everything it can to extinguish.

  17. when the flat screen left by a tenant failed to power on very roughly a year after, well *that*
    all happened abt 7 friggin years ago.
    l didnt replace it, cut of the cable feed, all of that weened me off the boob toob.
    as such l really HOPE these carrier do a collective ‘f u c r t c’ leaving large swaths of the populace
    of this post national state in a stupor checking the batteries in the remote.

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