#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
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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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