Music Canada’s submission to the CRTC’s assessment on “The Path Forward– Supporting Canadian and Indigenous audio material.”

Published May 6, 2025 by Music CanadaToday, Music Canada sent in-depth reactions to the CRTC as part of its assessment on “The Path Forward– Supporting Canadian and Indigenous audio material.”

We have actually engaged meaningfully throughout the CRTC’s regulative procedure since managing music streaming might have significant effects throughout the Canadian music market. This case thinks about presenting policies that might affect the core functions of the music streaming customer experience– an experience that Canadian audiences have actually welcomed which underpins a market that is driving restored market development and financial investment in the next generation of Canadian and Indigenous artists.

It’s essential the CRTC gets this.

Our submission lays out a variety of crucial concepts to notify the advancement of a contemporary regulative structure for music streaming. Our company believe these concepts are needed to guarantee that the regulative structure lines up with the special functions of the worldwide and extremely competitive music streaming market in which Canadian and Indigenous artists are attempting to prosper:

1. Music streaming is the essential earnings chauffeur for the Canadian taped music market and policies ought to be thoroughly adjusted to support, not impede, its development;
2. Music streaming platforms have actually developed techniques of promoting Canadian music and the regulative structure ought to acknowledge, show and incentivize these organization designs;
3. The regulative structure for music streaming ought to assist Canadian and Indigenous artists complete on the extremely competitive international phase where customers can listen to essentially any tune ever taped;
4. Radio guidelines were developed for radio; they will not work for music streaming;
5. User option need to be secured, otherwise we run the risk of driving listeners back to piracy where artists do not earn money when their music is played; and
6. Discoverability implies promoting Canadian and Indigenous music, not determining what Canadians listen to.

Check out Music Canada’s complete submission here: https://musiccanada.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Music-Canada-Submission-to-CRTC-BNC-2025-52.pdf

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