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Harper’s Netflix Fixation: Why Do American media companies get special treatment in Canada?

Eleven weeks to go and Stephen Harper’s “no Netflix tax” is an early campaign gimmick.

It is a predictable anti-tax pitch from the PM, but it says a lot about his chaotic public policy in Canada’s multi-billion dollar broadcasting industry. Not even the wealthiest American media company operating in Canada, Netflix still rakes in $400 million a year in Canada, employs no Canadians, and contributes nothing to the Canadian television system or the Canadian economy.