The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has formalized new rules for streamers that will force them to promote Canadian and Indigenous content and contribute more to a $2-billion system of supports for domestic programming.

The policies will require streamers to contribute 15 per cent of Canadian revenue to support domestic programming – 10 points more than the 5-per-cent baseline requirement announced two years ago – while private domestic broadcasters will see their rates generally lowered to 25 per cent.

The new framework comes three years after Ottawa passed the Online Streaming Act in a long-awaited attempt to bring broadcasting law into the digital age. Many Canadian entertainment companies, broadcast workers and artists have pressed Ottawa to support the industry by modernizing its decades-old Canadian content regulations.

But the proposals have already faced significant pushback from both the U.S.-dominated streaming and entertainment industries, which have long warned that levies and content-promotion quotas would weaken their existing investments in Canadian content.