“This decision triples the cost of doing business in Canada and will spark even more inflation in the market, making further investment and innovation less attractive,” the group said in a statement. “We urge the Canadian government to reconsider this approach.”
Good! For the people in Canada still paying for those services I suggest they stop, but I know they are not going to listen to me. They will have to pay more for the advancement of Canadian media, and those of us already consuming Canadian media will get more.
Describing it as an “unprecedented, unnecessary, and discriminatory investment obligations on American streaming services operating in Canada,” the Motion Picture Association accused the decision of violating CUSMA.
MPA seems to have forgotten that Trump said CUSMA is irrelevant.
We can come up with our own entertainment which may, or may not, include technology. Everything else is giant’s doing “business” way above our heads.



