Podcasts Technology Law Bytes Episode 6: A Dangerous Game to Play: A Former CRTC Vice-Chair Speaks Out on the Commission Plan to Regulate and Tax the Internet

Episode 6: A Dangerous Game to Play: A Former CRTC Vice-Chair Speaks Out on the Commission Plan to Regulate and Tax the Internet

Published: Oct. 20, 2021, 9:01 p.m.

b'For the better part of two decades, Canadian cultural groups have been pressing Canada\\u2019s telecom and broadcast regulator, the CRTC, to regulate and tax the Internet. The CRTC and successive governments consistently rejected the Internet regulation drumbeat, citing obvious differences with broadcast, competing public policy objectives such as affordable access, and the benefits of competition. That changed last year when the CRTC released Harnessing Change: The Future of Programming Distribution in Canada, in which it dramatically reversed its approach. Peter Menzies, a former CRTC commissioner and Vice-Chair of Telecommunications, joins this week\\u2019s LawBytes podcast to help sort through Cancon funding, Internet regulation, and the CRTC.\\nThe podcast can be downloaded here and is embedded below. Subscribe to the podcast via Apple Podcast, Google Play, Spotify or the RSS feed. Updates on the podcast on Twitter at @Lawbytespod.\\n\\nEpisode Notes:\\nRegulate Everything: The CRTC Goes All In On Internet Taxation and Regulation\\nHarnessing Change: The Future of Programming Distribution in Canada\\nCredits:\\nCBC News, Tax on Netflix and Spotify proposed by CRTC\\nCBC Catherine Tait at Prime Time, @sdbcraig\\nCBC News, Ottawa\\u2019s fight with Netflix reignites age-old debate \\u2014 what is Cancon and who should pay?\\nStanding Senate Committee on Transport and Communications, October 30, 2018\\nCanadian Heritage, Minister Joly \\u2013 Creative Canada Speech / Ministre Joly \\u2013 Discours Canada cr\\xe9atif\\nHouse of Commons, December 12, 2017'