Carney insults Trump again: Is this attitude going to get Canada a deal?

The federal government directed the CRTC today to reverse its decision tripling the streaming levy from 5% to 15% of Canadian revenues, announcing a $600 million taxpayer fund to replace it. For days the government said it could not interfere with the independent regulator. It also said Conservative opposition to the levy proved they wanted to kill Canadian media.

Topics covered:
► The CRTC streaming levy sequence: the CRTC tripled the levy from 5% to 15% on May 21, USTR Jamieson Greer named it a headline CUSMA trade irritant, Conservatives forced a parliamentary debate calling for reversal, the government spent days saying the CRTC is an independent regulator it cannot override, and then overrode it today replacing it with a $600 million taxpayer fund

► The political week in between: the Liberal government accused Conservatives of wanting to kill Canadian media, abandon Quebec, and swamp Canada with American content, while simultaneously preparing in the background to do exactly what the Conservatives asked, which Jim and Iain describe as one of the most cynical pieces of political theatre they have seen

► Carney's Trump social media press conference: told reporters the president is an exceptionally active user of social media and his government does not respond to everything he posts, with Jim and Iain pointing out the elbows up campaign, the Davos rupture speech, and the election itself were all reactions to Trump's social media

► The Bloc question period exchange: a Bloc MP demanding wage subsidies and a buy-back solution for the softwood lumber sector, sawmills closing, and the forestry sector in danger, with the government responding with references to earlier aluminum and steel funding and the prime minister visiting Quebec later that day

► Blanchet's blind spot: Jim and Iain's argument that the number one reason the Americans are upset with Canada is supply management, and that the number one defender of supply management in Canada is Yves-François Blanchet, without any apparent reflection on the connection

► Jim and Iain's pitch to the American government: help Canadian media free itself from Liberal intervention by killing Bill C-18 and ending government media funding, which would do more for a free Canadian press than any CRTC decision

► The $600 million replacement: the government replacing a levy paid by streaming platforms with taxpayer funding it will administer and distribute, changing the dependency rather than ending it

Is the CRTC streaming levy reversal a win for Canadians or a $600 million bill disguised as one?

Let us know what you think in the comments.

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