15% of the $0 I pay seems about right.
this post was submitted on 22 May 2026
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Good on Canada to protect their media industries instead of letting American firms drown them out.
If you want to do businesses in a country, don't complain when they ask you to invest a bit back.
This is just corporate welfare for our media corporations. If you think this is going to do anything other than just end up flowing up to the executives of Bell, Rogers, and Telus media then you are mistaken.
I hate being so pessimistic that I agree wholeheartedly with this.
This needs to happen but I don't have faith in the CRTC to do the right thing with the money.
There was a picture a few years back with the chair of the CRTC out for beers with the CEO of Bell - there's just no chance in hell this money is going to actual people without getting really heavily skimmed by those execs.
Thanks for explaining, I couldn't parse the headline. It seems so obvious now you did.
Ah never mind me, mumbling...
puts sprinkles in your shoes
If you want to do businesses in a country, don’t complain when...
Complaining about things the government tells them to do on behalf of society is pretty much the foundation of every company's whole business model at this point.
Queue extra Trump tariffs...
I wonder where he keeps his scythe. I know you like to keep yours next to where your heart used to be.