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Fuck the CRTC and Bell/Rogers/Cogeco who run them. The next step will be to deem the use of VPNs or other encrypted tunneling software illegal. We really are the dumbest western country.
edit: apparently I was unclear. Registering all these platforms is a precursor to charging them more money to provide media to Canadians, many platforms will dump Canada when there is 10x the market in the US with none of the CRTC. The only way to access these platforms will be VPNs and tunnels.
I fail to see how charging Canadian customers a little more to cover any additional costs would push companies out of Canada.
This sort of program historically also helps grow local content which is a net benefit to Canadians.
I certainly don't know all the details, but looking at the influence of Canadian media and the types of media we regularly successfully export it's hard to say it hasn't historically worked well for us.