The federal broadcast regulator says it will go ahead with the process to put rules in place around Canadian content on streaming services, after such efforts played a role in ending trade talks with the U.S, Anja Karadeglija at The Canadian Press reports.
The 2023 Online Streaming Act passed by the Liberal government says streamers should ensure “discoverability” of Canadian programs, including French language content.
The law says online streamers “shall clearly promote and recommend Canadian programming, in both official languages as well as in Indigenous languages, and ensure that any means of control of the programming generates results allowing its discovery.”