Steve Saretsky

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The mandate, they're actually extending this beyond just streamers.

They're including devices like smart TVs and set-top boxes, all of which will have to promote Canadian content.

They want metrics on how much Canadian content is being watched.

It basically creates a surveillance map of just about everybody for an entire year.

The other element that's got a lot of people concerned has to do with the assistance or support that these companies would have to provide to law enforcement.

The Apples and Metas and Googles saying, we don't do this anywhere and we sure don't want to do it here either.

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So that was the streaming bill that was really controversial at the time, as I recall, because there was concern that it would be applied beyond just traditional streaming services into user-generated content, TikTokers and YouTubers and podcasters, which is why it would have been particularly relevant to you.

Now, Bill ultimately does pass with still quite a lot of controversy.

The government...

Sort of follows through on a commitment that they made by saying, we don't intend to cover social media.

And so they issued a directive to the regulator, the CRTC, saying scope out social media.

Now, they should have just scoped it out in the bill, but that's a whole other story.

But much of the heavy lifting, the specifics, was left to the regulator, to the CRTC, to figure out.

A couple of years ago, they came up with an interim decision that applied a 5% interim fee that streamers were required to pay, streamers of a certain size were required to pay.