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Incredibly hard to understand! BC Premier Eby reacts to Trump's 100% tariffs on foreign-made movies
May 9, 2025
Incredibly hard to understand! BC Premier Eby reacts to Trump's 100% tariffs on foreign-made movies
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on the ground richard Zisman Global News
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uh Premier have you had an opportunity
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yet to speak to the BC film sector about
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the threats made by President Trump and
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what kind of in essence retaliation
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could BC put in place to protect the
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industry if somehow the president is
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able to put this 100% tariff in on films
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made outside of the US uh thanks Richard
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uh let me uh speak to the people who
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work in our amazing film industry
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directly
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uh our province will stand with you uh
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we are so proud of the work that you do
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we are international recognition for
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exceptional quality for delivering time
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and time again uh it's uh it's fantastic
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and it's why we stepped up to support
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the industry with additional supports
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it's an industry that touches every
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corner of our province and also drives
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tourism people travel some distance to
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visit the location of uh of Canadian
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films and television shows that see
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worldwide distribution um the
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president's uh proposal is incredibly
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hard to understand try to imagine as an
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American an option for two versions of
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Netflix one where you get just a handful
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of productions uh the other where you
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pay $50 a month or $100 a month and you
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get to see what everyone else in the
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world gets to see uh the uh to say the
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implementation would be challenging is
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an understatement we don't watch DVDs
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anymore but uh regardless even if the
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president does somehow find a way uh we
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will stand with our film industry and
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we'll stand with the film industry
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around the world uh to make sure uh that
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we are uh protecting the rights of
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Americans to see what they want to see
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which includes high quality productions
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filmed right here in Canada rich Beth
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CTV oh hi Premier the industry here the
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film industry employs about 26,000
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people i want to get your thoughts on
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how devastating it could be if there is
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indeed some kind of tariff we've seen
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the impacts of the of the writer and
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screen actors strike in 2023 the value
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of the industry in BC has decreased what
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are your concerns about what tariffs
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could mean for this film industry
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well you know there first of all to the
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folks in the film industry don't panic
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uh the uh president tweets a lot of
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stuff the uh implementation challenges
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of this are profound and uh and hard to
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understand exactly how this would work
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uh the industry is strong and growing in
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British Columbia uh we recently learned
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uh that The Last of Us has signed on for
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another season here that's a uh nine
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figure uh production in British Columbia
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shogun another season Buckle Up Port
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Moody uh to become historic Japan uh
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we're proud of the work that we do here
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everything from the amazing Hallmark
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movies right up to the big budget
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productions uh it's it's an important
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sector for our province we're going to
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stand strong for you um the uh there's
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no question uh that the president is
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threatening uh people who work in
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industries across British Columbia and
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across Canada his stated intent is to
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beggar our economy so that we become the
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51st state and we won't let the
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president do that will stand strong for
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the film industry for the softwood
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lumber industry uh for all the
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industries in British Columbia and make
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sure that uh we're expanding markets
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internationally and ensuring that jobs
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are strong today's announcement is part
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of that uh clean electricity uh will
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drive many of the industries drive our
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competitive advantage as we enter global
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markets uh and uh we'll find those ways
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to support our film industry as well as
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any other affected workers followup from
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Rob yeah we uh here we've done things
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like provide tax credits in December to
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attract foreign productions here
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subsidies back in 2023 would you
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consider we're so closely linked we're
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helping the Americans here would you
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reconsider doing that or would that not
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make sense and I'm also curious we saw
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what happened with Sinsky in the Oval
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Office how carefully are you going to be
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watching you said you don't want him to
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take any guff but you know how closely
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are you going to be tuned in to see
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tomorrow's meeting
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um so I uh I think that uh for BC film
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productions um and for our teams that
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work here as long as there's a a level
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playing field with other jurisdictions
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in terms of uh the tax treatment of
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productions our teams can compete with
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any production team around the world and
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when they create the films they're
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broadcast around the world uh they
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create intellectual property all of
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which uh is exempt from tariffs unless
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it's put on a DVD and shipped across the
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border so it's uh it's hard to know how
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this specific proposal would work uh but
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regardless we know uh that we're
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competitive with the best but part of
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that is ensuring a competitive tax
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environment and that's what we deliver
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for the film industry and that's what
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we're going to continue to deliver uh
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we're not going to be making any changes
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to that next is a question from Alec
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Lazby Vancouver Sun hi Premier uh
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Minister um Chandra Herbert went down to
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Los Angeles in November for some
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meetings with the film sector are there
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any what came out of those meetings what
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were the discussions that you're aware
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of and do you have any plans to send him
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back down there for further
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conversations is that worthwhile at this
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point um we're going to maintain our
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close connections uh and I mean it's
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it's hard to even describe a separate
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film industry between Canada and the
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United States we're so tightly
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integrated uh we have a strong domestic
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uh film industry here that tells our
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stories as Canadians but many of the
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people who work on those productions
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also work on uh uh huge blockbuster
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productions uh that uh that notionally
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originate in the United States but are
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often uh international productions
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filmed in multiple countries um we have
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uh the the outcome of uh of the meetings
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and the charm offensive that the
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minister led with uh Nina Kger our
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parliamentary secretary for film uh is
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things like finalizing uh the deals for
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The Last of Us and Shogun uh this this
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is hundreds of millions of dollars in
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production value for British Columbia uh
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we're going to continue to do that work
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we're going to continue to reach out to
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the industry part of the trade work that
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we have to do now is reassuring our
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partners uh that we're going to stand
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with them through these threats and come
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out the other side because we know as
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shelves empty out across the United
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States and all of a sudden Americans
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have access to half of the TV shows and
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movies that they used to have access to
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uh that uh that there will be a shift in
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uh in how uh the United States is
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governed because people won't stand for
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that and so either the president is
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going to shift his position on these
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issues or uh the midterm elections are
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gonna be a difficult one indeed thanks
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so much to everyone for joining us today
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that's all we have time for thanks very
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much
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