{"id":833902,"date":"2026-07-29T15:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T15:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/833902\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T15:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T15:18:11","slug":"cancon-payments-to-be-eliminated-ottawa-to-provide-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/833902\/","title":{"rendered":"CanCon payments to be eliminated, Ottawa to provide funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">OTTAWA \u2014 The Liberal government plans to \u201celiminate\u201d the financial contribution requirement for streamers set by the CRTC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It says in a court document it plans to replace that requirement with government funding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In early June, the government said it would issue a new policy directive to the CRTC after the broadcast regulator increased contributions for large streaming services from five per cent to fifteen per cent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The government also said at the time it would instead provide the industry with $600 million in annual funding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The court document, submitted by the attorney general\u2019s office on July 17, said the government would publish the new policy directive to the CRTC in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">While Ottawa changed course on the streaming rules after the U.S. identified the enabling legislation as a trade irritant, the United States Trade Representative said recently Canada wouldn\u2019t \u201creally get credit\u201d for the move.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Anja Karadeglija, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 The Liberal government plans to \u201celiminate\u201d the financial contribution requirement for streamers set by the CRTC.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":833903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[45,49,48,75,713,7607,47,20739,714],"class_list":["post-833902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-justice","tag-media","tag-national","tag-ottawa","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/833903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}