Don't Tax My TV!

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For a number of years, broadcasters specifically CTV, Global and CBC have been asking the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to tax cable and satellite customers for receiving over-the-air television stations.

This new tax is called fee-for-carriage and Shaw is working hard to fight it.

You spoke, and they heard!

Thanks to the thousands of consumer letters sent to the CRTC protesting the new tax, the Honourable James Moore, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, announced that the CRTC has been directed to consider consumer interests.

Minister Moore stated that in this period of unprecedented change in Canada's communications environment, the CRTC and the entire broadcasting industry must look to the future, to find innovative solutions, always with the consumer in mind."

You can dress this up anyway you like, but the so called fee-for-carriage is a tax on TV viewers with absolutely no benefit, said Jim Shaw, CEO and Vice-Chairman of Shaw. We applaud Minister Moore for directing the CRTC to put affordability and the needs of consumers first.

Hearings on the matter are scheduled for November 16, 2009, and December 7, 2009.

Its not over yet!

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[RUDEC0Y0TE]

"Local TV" is passed tense, the internet is the future.

A TV company is like any other business, if people don't buy their product they go down.

Why should we be forced to pay these companies "Local TV" to keep them from going down, why are they any different for any other business, News Paper, Radio, Websites etc.etc, they provide all the same services.

At the end of the day it should be a choice, If I don't wish to receive I don't pay.

Force me and I'll boycott their sponsors who advertise.

[prckay]

I Love Local TV

[CrewRite]

Cable Companies are forced by law to provide Local TV to its Customers.

[Tiberiusduck]

This "Money Pit" they call the C.B.C. is already funded by the taxpayers to the annual tune of $1,200,000,000,00. What a complete waste of taxpayer dollars. As for "Corporate Welfare" for private broadcasters, that's what "Social Services" is for.