
Canadian airwaves could soon be flooded with more U.S. TV and movies
Brad Bennett, MobileSyrup
created: May 27, 2025, 1:22 p.m. | updated: May 28, 2025, 4:25 p.m.
At a Monday hearing with the CRTC, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation took the stand to argue against relaxing the rules on Canadian content.
The CRTC started with public consults in February and has heard from large Canadian broadcast companies like Bell and Rogers.
Large foreign companies like Netflix and Amazon were represented by the Motion Picture Association-Canada.
These rules haven't been changed in a while but generally, 55 per cent of all programming aired on Canadian TV each year needs to be Canadian-made.
The public broadcaster said that relaxing CanCon rules is a "slippery slope" and that Canadian stories should be told by Canadians.
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