Canadian Heritage committee  Indeed, one of the changes the bill proposes is making sure the CRTC does have information-gathering powers so that it could go to a service operating in whole or in part in Canada and ask for certain information from them, such as their Canadian revenues. I had understood Mr. J

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you for the question, Mr. Waugh. I believe I understand what Mr. Nater, the mover here, is seeking to accomplish by establishing a hard, financial threshold. As I highlighted earlier, the government does recognize that there are going to be instances, given the wide vari

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you for the question, Mr. Housefather. To some extent it's similar to what Mr. Julian had asked before the break. The CRTC does have information-gathering powers for entities that are subject to the act. I think a potential conflict that could arise is a company arguing th

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Chair. Thank you for the question, Mr. Julian. In the instance you describe, the primary tool of the CRTC would likely be to go and have its order turned into a court order. It has that ability to go to court and have a decision it's made or a contravention basically

Canadian Heritage committee  The provision as drafted says that the act does not apply to an online undertaking, which means none of the provisions of the act would apply if a service fell under that threshold. The CRTC does have information-gathering powers precisely to be able to assess questions around

Canadian Heritage committee  The goal here, as I understand it from Mr. Nater, and the point of reference is revenues in Canada. That will be an important reference point for streaming services because, for example, their financial contributions to the system are likely to be considered in reference to thing

Canadian Heritage committee  In terms of impact, I think Mr. Nater explained it in that the act would not apply to certain online undertakings unless they surpassed that threshold. Mr. Housefather, I believe, referenced the current standard in the act, which is the assessment of whether material contributio

Canadian Heritage committee  No, the term “commercial content” is not used. When the government uses the term “commercial content”, the concept to which it's referring is the factors set out in section 4.2.

Canadian Heritage committee  “Canadian program”, for the purposes of the regulatory regime, would be understood based on how the CRTC defines what we colloquially call “CanCon”. In the case of audiovisual content, that would be the 10-point scale. In the case of music, that would be the MAPL system, where yo

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Chair. Mr. Nater is correct in that there is currently no definition of discoverability. The government's position on that is that it includes a number of different measures, including marketing and promotion, things like showcasing on landing pages, and increased vis

Canadian Heritage committee  What I might suggest, in that instance, would be something like an inclusive definition, so the decision would include—again, I'm thinking on the spot here, so you'd want to give it some thought—things like a licensing decision, such as, for example, an order made under section 9

Canadian Heritage committee  The issue at play, as I understand it based on Monsieur Champoux's reasoning, is that the CRTC, as it manages its business, makes a variety of different decisions and determinations in the course of those proceedings. As Monsieur Champoux highlighted, regardless of whether it's

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Chair. Indeed, we are here for the day to provide technical information to the committee as required on the amendments being proposed. Mr. Bittle, if I understand Monsieur Champoux's reason for bringing this forward, it's to provide a greater latitude to make petitio

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Mr. Waugh. The methodology behind that number includes that a good chunk of it—just over $900 million—will come from what we would call “expenditure requirements”. That would be an obligation on online streaming services to spend a certain percentage of their revenues

Canadian Heritage committee  I don't have the Netflix figure in front of me. One of my colleagues might. What I would say to you, Mr. Waugh, is that for sure Netflix is doing a huge amount of production activity already in Canada. Most of it would not currently qualify as a Canadian program, so part of the