CRTC Won’t Regulate Content Creators, Chair Says, Days After Launching Podcast Registration Process

A person navigates to the online social media pages of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) on a cell phone in Ottawa on May 17, 2021. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick

The head of the CRTC says that individual users and content creators will not be regulated by Bill C-11, seemingly contradicting recent news that streamers and podcasters making more than $10 million will have to register with the administrative tribunal.

“The first consultation looked at which online streaming services need to register and which will be exempted,” explained Vicky Eatrides, chairperson and CEO at the CRTC in a speech before the C.D. Howe Institute on Oct. 3.