The Globe and Mail: On Friday evening, the U.S. negotiating team introduced an unexpected demand that Canada provide exemptions to its laws requiring big U.S. streamers to boost the discoverability of Canadian content, including French-language content, in this country, according to a senior government source.
But Canada rejected the demand, made hours before the talks broke down, regarding it as a threat to this country’s culture and sovereignty. It was one of a number of reasons Ottawa’s team walked away from the negotiating table…