The Online Streaming Act was the result of lobbying by the TV, film and cable industries that wanted to 'level the playing field' by placing all audio and video internet content under the authority of the CRTC.Giordano Ciampini/The Canadian Press

Peter Menzies is a Macdonald-Laurier Institute Senior Fellow, a past publisher of the Calgary Herald, and a former vice chair of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC).

Given a choice between abandoning its longstanding affection for supply management and the yet-to-be-fully-implemented Online Streaming Act, it appears likely it will be the latter that Canada sacrifices this year in trade talks with the United States.

Those two items, along with the Online News Act, are among the key irritants put on the table in December by U.S trade representative Jamieson Greer as his country prepares to renegotiate the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). In response, Prime Minister

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