Trump envoy accuses Canada of building a new trade barrier with streaming shake-up

[shockedcanadian]

Some in Canada don't want a deal, they believe the future is China. A nation with a trillion dollar trade surplus.

America knows we violate rights and harm their corporations here, now the repeated threats of new taxes on Netflix and other streaming services. I do not understand the timing of these responses unless we are trying to counter the mushroom decisions. We are sabotaging USMCA before the renewal as Mexico looks to replace us.

MSN

Canada’s fight over streaming rules has moved from Ottawa policy circles into the middle of a growing trade dispute with Washington. The latest flashpoint is a CRTC decision requiring major online video platforms to put a larger share of their Canadian revenues toward domestic programming. To Canadian regulators, the move is about modernizing cultural policy for the streaming era. To U.S. officials and industry groups, it looks like another digital trade barrier aimed at American companies.


The clash lands at a sensitive moment. Canada and the United States are already navigating tariff tensions, tech-policy disputes, and the looming review of their continental trade pact. What began as a debate over Canadian stories on streaming platforms is now becoming a test of how far cultural policy can go before it triggers economic retaliation.

Washington Turns a Streaming Rule Into a Trade Fight​

U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra’s criticism turned a Canadian broadcasting decision into a diplomatic flashpoint almost immediately. His message was blunt: the CRTC’s new framework, in Washington’s view, targets U.S. companies, raises their cost of operating in Canada, and worsens the investment climate. That framing matters because it shifts the issue from culture to trade, where the Trump administration has been far more willing to use threats, investigations, and tariffs.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Some in Canada don't want a deal, they believe the future is China. A nation with a trillion dollar trade surplus.

America knows we violate rights and harm their corporations here, now the repeated threats of new taxes on Netflix and other streaming services. I do not understand the timing of these responses unless we are trying to counter the mushroom decisions. We are sabotaging USMCA before the renewal as Mexico looks to replace us.

MSN

Canada’s fight over streaming rules has moved from Ottawa policy circles into the middle of a growing trade dispute with Washington. The latest flashpoint is a CRTC decision requiring major online video platforms to put a larger share of their Canadian revenues toward domestic programming. To Canadian regulators, the move is about modernizing cultural policy for the streaming era. To U.S. officials and industry groups, it looks like another digital trade barrier aimed at American companies.


The clash lands at a sensitive moment. Canada and the United States are already navigating tariff tensions, tech-policy disputes, and the looming review of their continental trade pact. What began as a debate over Canadian stories on streaming platforms is now becoming a test of how far cultural policy can go before it triggers economic retaliation.

Washington Turns a Streaming Rule Into a Trade Fight​

U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra’s criticism turned a Canadian broadcasting decision into a diplomatic flashpoint almost immediately. His message was blunt: the CRTC’s new framework, in Washington’s view, targets U.S. companies, raises their cost of operating in Canada, and worsens the investment climate. That framing matters because it shifts the issue from culture to trade, where the Trump administration has been far more willing to use threats, investigations, and tariffs.

Nobody cares!

 

[shockedcanadian]

Nobody cares!

You better care ya rat!

 

[Gabe Lackmann]

Some in Canada don't want a deal, they believe the future is China. A nation with a trillion dollar trade surplus.

America knows we violate rights and harm their corporations here, now the repeated threats of new taxes on Netflix and other streaming services. I do not understand the timing of these responses unless we are trying to counter the mushroom decisions. We are sabotaging USMCA before the renewal as Mexico looks to replace us.

MSN

Canada’s fight over streaming rules has moved from Ottawa policy circles into the middle of a growing trade dispute with Washington. The latest flashpoint is a CRTC decision requiring major online video platforms to put a larger share of their Canadian revenues toward domestic programming. To Canadian regulators, the move is about modernizing cultural policy for the streaming era. To U.S. officials and industry groups, it looks like another digital trade barrier aimed at American companies.


The clash lands at a sensitive moment. Canada and the United States are already navigating tariff tensions, tech-policy disputes, and the looming review of their continental trade pact. What began as a debate over Canadian stories on streaming platforms is now becoming a test of how far cultural policy can go before it triggers economic retaliation.

Washington Turns a Streaming Rule Into a Trade Fight​

U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra’s criticism turned a Canadian broadcasting decision into a diplomatic flashpoint almost immediately. His message was blunt: the CRTC’s new framework, in Washington’s view, targets U.S. companies, raises their cost of operating in Canada, and worsens the investment climate. That framing matters because it shifts the issue from culture to trade, where the Trump administration has been far more willing to use threats, investigations, and tariffs.

Trump is a first-rate douche nozzle that would push any nation to trade with Satan if he had a shipping fleet.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

You better care ya rat!

Why? I am not Canadian and all of you poor bastards can freeze to death for all I care! Much less be able to stream from US sources. If you all want to cut your own throats, who am I to interfere?