Bill C-11 affects the future of Canada’s domestic film and TV sector

The future of Canada’s domestic film and television sector depends on our collective ability to retain and control a meaningful share of the IP we create and produce.

In its current form, Bill C-11 will create a two-tiered system in which Canadian broadcasters, producers, and creators are subject to one set of rules, while foreign streamers face a different, much looser set of guidelines, write Linda Schuyler and Stephen Stohn. Unsplash photograph by Peter Geo

Opinion

BY LINDA SCHUYLER, STEPHEN STOHN

March 8, 2023

Some friends were travelling in China back in the 1990s, when the country was just opening up to the western world. When they introduced themselves to their interpreter as Canadian, he smiled and said to them: “Ah, Canada: Bethune … and Degrassi!”

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