{"id":834001,"date":"2026-07-29T16:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T16:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/834001\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T16:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T16:19:08","slug":"ottawa-to-eliminate-content-funding-requirement-for-streamers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/834001\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa to eliminate content funding requirement for streamers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Open this photo in gallery:<\/a><\/p>\n

Ottawa plans to eliminate a Canadian content funding requirement for large streaming services.Giordano Ciampini\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

The Liberal government plans to \u201celiminate\u201d the financial contribution requirement for streamers set by the CRTC.<\/p>\n

It says in a court document it plans to replace that requirement with government funding.<\/p>\n

In early June, the government said it would issue a new policy directive to the CRTC after the broadcast regulator increased contributions<\/a> for large streaming services from 5 per cent to 15 per cent.<\/p>\n

The government also said at the time it would instead provide the industry<\/a> with $600-million in annual funding.<\/p>\n

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

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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Ottawa plans to eliminate a Canadian content funding requirement for large streaming services.Giordano…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,912,907,911,905,20739,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-834001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-ottawa","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834001","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=834001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}