Trudeau introduces the Netflix tax he promised would neve...

Trudeau introduces the Netflix tax he promised would never come

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In 2017, the Prime Minister promised taxpayers there would not be a 5% fee imposed on streaming services to support Canadian content.

But it’s here now. On Monday, Trudeau’s broadcasting bureaucracy, the CRTC, introduced a punitive streaming tax.

Trudeau government brings in new STREAMING TAX.

Get ready for higher prices to stream your favourite music, movies and TV shows.

Feds fighting inflation one tax hike at a time 🤡https://t.co/WNq8IYx34z

— Franco Terrazzano (@franco_nomics) June 4, 2024

It is applied to Netflix, Amazon Prime, Spotify and other streaming services to prop up Canadian content nobody wants. That’s why content consumers fled to online streaming services: to get away from subsidized, often terrible, media