Joly forced to defend themselves in all forums

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The minister of canadian Heritage, Mélanie Joly, presented Thursday in Ottawa, the new “cultural policy” in Canada. This includes, among other things, the controversial agreement with Netflix. Since then, she faced a barrage of criticism which is not dry not.

Guillaume St-Pierre

Friday, 29 September 2017, 14:03

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Friday, 29 September, 2017 23:45

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OTTAWA | Despite a vast public relations operation, the minister of canadian Heritage, Mélanie Joly, has been unable to calm the people’s anger caused by his decision not to submit Netflix to the same rules as the producers and creators of here.

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“The immense gap that is opening today sends a message of concern for our industry in quebec and canada “, responds the tax Marwah Rizqy.

“We roll out the red carpet for the foreign multinational companies by giving them tax holidays. Clearly, they are invited to bankrupt our enterprises, ” fulminates-t-it.

The minister Joly has spent the whole day of Friday to defend, often painfully, on many forums, radio and television, his agreement with the american giant of the entertainment.

Despite interview requests, Ms. Joly has not recalled The Newspaper.

According to the agreement, Netflix promises to invest in the next five years $ 500 million to produce canadian content.

In exchange, the american giant will not have to charge the tax to consumers, unlike its canadian competitors such as Club illico and Tou.tv Extra.

In addition, no minimal content for French-speaking has been imposed.

In an interview broadcast on LCN, the minister insisted that she did not want that canadian consumers are still taxed.

Protect the citizens

“One of the internet fees are very high, the highest in the world. Me, I wanted to protect the citizens, ” she said.

The president and chief executive officer of Quebecor and owner of the Newspaper, Pierre Karl Péladeau, does not accept this argument. He recalled that the federal government will indirectly pass the bill to taxpayers by raising its contribution to the culture to compensate for the shortfall caused by the tax law offered to Netflix.

“They will perhaps not increase the tax burden of taxpayers, but they will increase the debt of Canada,” he explains.

Mr. Péladeau is of the opinion that the Trudeau government has avoided taxing Netflix by simple political calculation.

“It takes political will, but it does not exist because the will, it is to make the electioneering “, plague there.

An opinion that is shared by the specialist Marwah Rizqy.

Even the quebec minister of Culture, Luc Fortin, came charging back on Friday to criticize the agreement.

Game Plan

Despite the wave of protest, the minister Joly doesn’t back down, and says that he is convinced that his plan will eventually be included.

“I have a game plan that is difficult. I am the first minister of Culture in the world to come up with such a plan. But my goal is to preserve our industry “, she adds.

However, Marwah Rizqy recalls that the other countries all have a tendency to move towards the taxation of the giants of the digital.

In an email exchange, Netflix has ensured that its ” investment of $ 500 million will include productions in French and English “.