These guys are, if nothing else, consistent. At the CRTC hearings on implementing the new Bill C-11, Bell asked the regulators to force U.S. streamers to pay into a fund that would help support the production of Canadian news programs, something for which they've asked the Commission to give them some relief.

But the broadcasting giant doesn't think their own streaming service should have to pay anything into such a fund. At least not right away. 

"Bell representatives told a CRTC panel Tuesday that the commission should simultaneously exempt Canadian streaming platforms such as Crave from those new obligations until traditional broadcasters receive regulatory relief."

And since Bell is the de facto biggest and almost only true full-service mainstream Canadian streamer in the country, that benefit would mostly accrue to them. 

Bell's V.P. of Regulatory Law told the Commissioners that they have it "backwards" and his company and other "traditional broadcasters" should get all the protection first. 

They never stop trying to force the burden for their own issues or the cost of doing business onto others. It hasn't worked in the past. Hopefully, it won't work this time, either.

The real problem is consumers will almost certainly bear the burden of any additional expenses forced onto the U.S. giants, if they even agree to these terms. 

'Your priorities are backwards,' Bell tells CRTC during Online Streaming Act hearing