The text of a new amendment to the Canadian Broadcasting Act demanding a set percentage of Canadian content on platforms available nationwide definitely also applies to adult content, according to regulatory experts.
The amendment, Bill C-11, fails to
clarify exactly how the Canadianness of a porn scene or piece of OnlyFans content should be determined. The bill has already passed in the House of Commons, and moves to the Senate.
The bill required that the likes of Netflix, YouTube and even
Instagram will soon be forced to subject their content to Canada's famously onerous strictures on Canadian content.
Peter Menzies, a former Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) vice chair who now opposes the bill -- has
asserted that online porn will almost certainly fall within the bill's purview:
The final decision regarding who's in and who's out is to be made in a future CRTC hearing, but it's difficult to imagine Commissioners giving
Pornhub and its many hours of user-generated content an exemption.
The CRTC has previously regulated erotic channels broadcast in Canada, including XXX Action Clips and the gay-oriented Maleflixxx, to ensure that at least 35% of their
adult content was Canadian, or the equivalent of 8.5 hours of Canadian porn per day.
Under the current mandatory system for TV, content creators must file detailed budgets with the CRTC to prove minimum quotas of Canadian actors, Canadian crew and
even the quantity of production costs that were verifiably spent in Canada.
The US adult industry trade group is not impressed by the BBC's 'demonstrably biased and stigmatizing reporting on sex worker rights and sexual expression'
