Will Page: Bill C-11 threatens to derail progress technology has brought to Canadian culture

Bill C\u002D11 should focus on market\u002Dfriendly solutions that align with the on\u002Ddemand nature of streaming. Read more.

officially launched in Canada in late 2014, a full three years after its U.S. launch. During that interim period, Spotify dominated the front page on Can’tada – a website documenting cool things Canadians couldn’t access. The holdup, as in many markets at the time, stemmed from the fear that streaming would cannibalize Canada’s incumbent creative industries.

Before I was at Spotify, I was a government economist, so I’m well aware of policymakers’ tendency to overlook the unintended consequences of their actions. And while I fully support regulators’ aims to prop up Canadian music, they should be careful not to undermine the success ushered in by streaming.

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