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Disney, Netflix Ask Canadian Court to Kill Proposed 5% Revenue Tax
(www.investopedia.com)
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Using the first numbers I found Canada is ~7% of Netflix' total subscriber count, and less than 1/3 the number of subscribers as the US. They could shut off service to Canada for a month until people start burning down service Canada locations and the tax gets dropped.
Will it? Facebook/instagram did a similar thing in response to the Online News Act by banning any Canadian news links and in my experience people blamed facebook not the government