OTTAWA — Republicans on an influential House committee are pushing top Trump administration officials to pressure Canada to kibosh its controversial Online Streaming Act, which they describe as a “major threat” to the trade relationship.

In a July 31 letter obtained by National Post, 18 Republican members of Congress on the powerful House ways and means committee ramped up pressure on White House officials to get Canada to dump the “discriminatory” Act the same way it ditched the Digital Services Tax in late June.

“The fact that the Online Streaming Act already imposes discriminatory obligations and threatens additional obligations imminently is a major threat to our cross-border digital trade relationship,” reads the letter to U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, Treasury Secretary

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