US Ambassador Calls for Immediate Repeal of Online Streaming Tax

U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra participates in an interview at the United States Embassy in Ottawa on Dec. 9, 2025. The Canadian Press/Justin Tang

U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra has called for Canada to repeal its law taxing major television streaming platforms, after Canada’s broadcast regulator recently announced it was tripling its tax.

Hoekstra said on May 28 that he had met with U.S. streaming firms who said the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission’s (CRTC) Online Streaming Tax will “drive away investment and job creation in Canada’s creative sector.”