#235 Taxing Porn (And Everything Else) To Pay For CanCon
Canada's broadcast regulator has put forward a proposal to tax everything from porn to podcasts to help pay for CanCon.
Jesse Brown
Host & Publisher
Hosted by Jesse Brown
Greg O’Brien, editor and publisher of Cartt.ca, talks about why the CRTC is reviving the Netflix tax debate and what their plan would mean for the internet.
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We don't seem to question, at least not in the public discourse, what it means that the same investment firm is enmeshed with so many of our media companies. -Gemma Boothroyd