Chantal Hebert
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584 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 5 Jun
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And when people talk about
Who has the ear of the president?
I would argue that people who did not want this to happen, the digital platform owners, have a lot more audience with President Trump than, for instance, the people in the U.S.
who want to do away with supply management in Canada.
So the calculation obviously is that the message is going to be Canada is making a move, now you make a move.
The fig leaf was the affordability matter.
The rationale the government put forward to say, hey, this is good news and we are taking care of your pocketbook, was that if they let this happen, all of us would pay more for our Netflix Prime, whatever, subscriptions.
Well, first, that has not been the case in the countries that have applied similar legislation.
Why?
Because it's a competitive market and domestic and US platforms compete against each other on price.
But two, I spent the week trying to think about my basic needs in a time when affordability is an issue.
So housing, sure.
Food, sure.
Heating, certainly.
You know, my digital subscriptions came way down the list of needs and did not actually make the cut for basic needs.
So if I were going to use $600 million to help Canadians with their pocketbooks, I probably would be aiming at something other than subscriptions.
But the real question at the end of the week is whether this is not the first Canadian concession.
We have made steps.
towards the US administration signals that we wanted to negotiate and were willing to drop baggage along the way.
So far over the past year, none of those have resulted in what could be qualified as progress.
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