OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney has cast his push to revisit a decision hiking foreign streaming services’ funding for Canadian content as an affordability measure, despite research showing that similar policies elsewhere have not been clearly linked to higher consumer prices.
The Carney Liberals argued earlier this week that the move was not a capitulation to the U.S. — the law on which the policy is based has been a longtime trade irritant — but rather an effort to ensure that streaming giants didn’t pass on increased contribution costs to their subscribers.
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