The federal government intends to scrap the requirement that foreign streamers (mainly US) like Netflix, Apple TV+, Paramount+, and Prime Video pay a share of their Canadian revenue into domestic content funds (CanCon), replacing that money with taxpayer funding instead. The letter came from Department of Justice Senior General Counsel Michael Morris and went to the Federal Court of Appeal. In it, Ottawa says it intends to axe the base contribution requirement on streaming services outright and provide government funding to replace it. “Patching the old broadcast contribution system onto the Internet was never a good idea,” Geist wrote on Wednesday. Miller’s office says streamers will still have to reinvest some unspecified amount, with the new directives are expected within weeks.