Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press
 
 

Music streamers, including Spotify, Amazon and Apple Music, have appealed to Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge to intervene after being told by the broadcasting regulator to contribute 5 per cent of their annual Canadian revenues to support the country’s creative industries, warning the costs could be passed onto consumers.
 

The body representing streamers wrote to Ms. St-Onge after the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), the independent regulator implementing the Online Streaming Act, ruled that foreign streaming platforms will together have to pay about $200-million a year to support Canadian music, TV, film and radio.
 
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