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The Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has announced a new strategic plan. The plan focuses on three key areas of focus over the next few years:

Canada’s CRTC is pursuing improved communications services and modernization of broadcasting laws with a new strategy. Ottawa Business Journal

first of all 1) Promote competition and encourage investment to provide reliable, economical, high-quality Internet and mobile phone services; 2) Modernizing the broadcasting framework and establishing a negotiating framework for the Online News Act; 3) The goal is to provide better services to the public through investments in the CRTC itself. This plan presents a new direction for Canada’s communications policy, and attention will be paid to what substantive changes the CRTC will bring about to improve communications services in the future.

Behind this strategy is ongoing criticism of high phone and internet rates in Canada. Accordingly, the CRTC is seeking ways to expand consumer choice and reduce rates by investing in high-quality networks, strengthening connectivity to rural and indigenous areas, and establishing secure communication systems.

Of particular note is the implementation of the revised Broadcasting Act. Accordingly, all radio stations, television services and online streaming services must clarify how they will contribute to the broadcasting system. The CRTC will begin public consultations on defining Canadian and Indigenous content, establishing relationships between streaming services of various sizes, and on radio and audio streaming services.

Global streaming service providers such as Apple and Spotify are preparing legal action against the CRTC’s requirement to pay 5% of domestic revenue in taxes for Canadian content production under the Online Streaming Act.