Ist Kanadas „Netflix-Steuer“ den Ärger wert, den sie von den USA bekommt? – Das Online-Streaming-Gesetz verlangt, dass große Streamer einen Beitrag zu kanadischen Medienfonds leisten
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/online-streaming-act-streamers-canada-netflix-tax-tariffs-trump-9.7159752
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No it’s not
Sure am happy pirate bay doesn’t have a tax.
It’s fine… can we repeal the copyright extension? threaten them with that and repeal the [data localisation ban](https://www.international.gc.ca/trade-commerce/trade-agreements-accords-commerciaux/agr-acc/cusma-aceum/digital_trade-commerce_numerique.aspx?lang=eng) from the last negotiations while you are at it.
It’s basically like a tariff right? Does it mean Crave doesn’t pay the tax? Crave plays mostly, but not all, American made movies and shows. So theoretically more people would switch to Crave, which is owned by Bell, so yay, I guess?
Coincidentally Netflix just had a major expansion of their Vancouver animation office.
These DSTs are stupid. Netflix already made far more Canadian content than required prior to these taxes.
Canadians disproportionately represent our nation across music, film, and comedy. We have a strong Canadian identity while living next to a homogenized tone deaf super empire who rules its population through sophisticated propaganda.
If they want to pee in our collective cultural pool we all swim in, then they can pay towards our nation’s priority to have a pool free of their piss.
All these taxes do is make life more expensive and gives the federal government more money to squander
Great. No Netflix, no problem. Subscription canceled. Keep your lousy mindless entertainment.
you guys pay for streaming services? it’s been for the elite for the past like, 6 years or smth
Let’s rephrase the title. “US attempts to influence Canada tax law, should Canada care?” No we shouldn’t care what the US thinks.
Tax everything we can from corporate America, Canada the whole fucking system.
They can AFFORD it!
As a loyal Canadian consumer, I refuse to pay for any form of Netflix.
What is this media fund used for exactly?
Yes.
Tax me more big daddy!!!
Yes, next question please
If they can’t pay a tax on money they are siphoning from Canada, then why does Canada need to respect American copyright?
Is the short term appeasement of the united states worth the long term damage to our social fabric?
Do we want to follow them in the path they are taking?
Every single cent the big internet companies paid for the online tax they just repealed was returned to the companies by the feds. I guarantee you any price increases were not returned to consumers.
Entertainment is a globalized industry now. This tax is like taxing foreign oil or any commodity.
Why would we NOT tax an American company operating here? Why should we exempt them? I see no reason
I was helping someone go through their music collection this week, and it really highlighted for me how current radio stations and streaming services seem to focus on Canadian artists that made it big in the USA and ignoring groups that are or were popular in Canada but not huge internationally. For example Great Big Sea had one album hit big outside Canada, but several in Canada, so at best you hear a song from the international album.
We“ve lost something.
Saw something similar in the Junos.when a US based performer swept two years in a row.
So yes, this funding is important, and is worth fighting for. It’s our people, our experiences, our songs.
In my estimation, many or most things that the USA does *vis a vis* Canada is designed to, or has the incidental effect of, increasing the USA cultural, economic, or military stranglehold on Canada.
I believe that collectively we are starting to realize this (especially at the federal and provincial political leadership levels), but there are still many Canadians that either don’t care, or would like to be ‚more American‘.
Bottom line, if we want to remain independent, then we have to accept the pain of pushing back on the USA.
Let’s back up for a second.
I’m thinking that any ‚Netflix tax‘ is ultimately going to be filtered back to, and paid for, by Canadian NetFlix users in terms of the amounts they pay in subscriptions. So it would be them who would effectively be funding additional Canadian content on the NetFlix platform + of course also need to pay a whole bunch for additional overhead for the Canadian gov’t to administer it. Its sort of like a Trump tariff where the gov’t is telling people that the other countries will pay, while really its the consumer that pays.
Also, for me, I feel I’m already paying enough for Canadian content, in terms of funding the CBC – much of which I can’t even watch because its behind a paywall and oddly enough I don’t have infinite amounts of money to spend.
Don’t get me wrong, I love the CBC and watch the National daily, but feel I seem to be paying a lot for that.
Your welcome to make your own decisions based on your own watching habits. But for me, I don’t think this is something the gov’t should be pursing.
Canada needs to tell the US where to stuff it. The US seriously needs to be put in its place.
Our country our laws.
When listening to Michael Geist speak on the subject something that gets skipped is that he grew up at a time when publicly funded or supported CanCon was the norm, and US media was to some extent the exception.
When Geist was a kid his peers that had TV overwhelmingly had one or two Canadian stations in Saturday mornins, with access to US channels being rare. If he was watching kid shows it may have been on a black and white set.
I don’t think he has an appreciation and understanding of how heavily pushed US content is now, and how it screams over the Canadian content even with current protections.
I thought they didn’t need anything from us. Weird how they care about our laws
You want to sell things to Canadians, the government is within their rights to tax it. Whether for supporting Canadian media or the general revenue or even to tariff foreign owned media coming into the country. All of it is fair game.
All it does is create slop shows like Big Brother Canada and Drag Race Canada etc. Do we need garbage shows like that?
I used to be against it, and other digital taxes like these.
But ever since Trump & Co started attacking us, and wanting to kill this measure, now I support it.