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CRTC to release decision on new definition of Canadian content
The CRTC updates Canadian content rules to include online platforms and modernize criteria, following public hearings and new requirements for foreign streamers to support local production.
- On Nov. 18, 2025, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission will issue its decision in Ottawa on a modernized Canadian content definition for television and online streaming services under the Online Streaming Act.
- The review forms part of hearings to implement the Online Streaming Act, which updated broadcasting laws to capture online platforms like Netflix, following a two-week public hearing earlier this year.
- By targeting online platforms, the rule update shifts the traditional Canadian-content framework by extending the current points-based Canadian-content test to cover online streaming platforms like Netflix.
- Big foreign streamers stand to be affected as the regulator refines eligibility rules for television and online streaming services, following an earlier CRTC decision requiring them to fund Canadian production.
- An earlier decision to make foreign streamers contribute to production funds is now tied to a court challenge, following the two-week public hearing earlier this year by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission .
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