CBC: Fightin’ words at CRTC Future of Digital Services hearings

Netflix and CRTC chairman Jean-Pierre Blais got in a heated exchange over the future of digital services in Canada at a recent hearing. What do you think of the idea of a 'Netflix tax'? Article by Terry Padwell for The CBC Regulating the internet to help boost Canadian content will only hurt consumers, a Netflix executive told the country's broadcast regulator on Friday before being ordered to hand over confidential company information.

In an occasionally tense appearance before the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, Corie Wright urged the broadcast regulator to let market forces dictate what consumers can watch.

Netflix was the first of 13 organizations testifying on the last day of public hearings before the CRTC on the future of television regulation in Canada.

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