CRTC Considering Certain ‘Requirements’ for Streaming Platforms to Promote Canadian and Indigenous Content Globally

A crew work on a film set on a Toronto street as a police officer looks on, April 17, 2019. The Canadian Press/Doug Ives

Canada’s broadcast regulator is considering implementing certain “requirements or incentives” that it says would help ensure streaming platforms promote Canadian and indigenous content both domestically and internationally, according to a consultation document.

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) announced on May 12 that it was launching three consultations to receive public feedback on a number of its proposed updates to the Broadcasting Act in line with the Liberal government’s recently passed Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act.