Deputy United States trade representative Jayme White stressed ‘ongoing concerns’ about Bill-C11 and Bill C-18 at a meeting last week with Rob Stewart, Canada’s deputy minister for international trade
of Ottawa’s online streaming and online news bills, prompting a legal expert to predict the issue will be raised during President Joe Biden’s planned visit to Canada in March.
The U.S. is concerned that the two bills unfairly single out American firms, including Google, Facebook and Netflix. Two sources told The Globe and Mail that the CRTC’s lack of experience regulating print media and digital platforms wasThe Globe is not naming the sources because they were not authorized to speak publicly on the issue.
Last week, Democrat Ron Wyden, chairman of the U.S. Senate committee on finance, and Republican Michael Crapo, a senior member of the committee, raised concerns in a letter to Ms. Tai that the bills could breach the terms of the United-States-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement . said the online streaming bill would “mandate preferential treatment for Canadian content and deprive U.S. creatives of the North American market, access they were promised under USMCA.”
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