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> There is really no "Canadian music" either, it's really just the same as American music. What’s interesting is that you can see the quotas the government pla

> There is really no "Canadian music" either, it's really just the same as American music. What’s interesting is that you can see the quotas the government place on radio stations as a form of subsidies. Meaning that, according to the government, Justing Bieber signing about “Georgia Peaches” and consuming drugs in California counts as Canadian Music and Culture (he was born in Canada). > Take the recent culturally popular hit on Netflix "Squid Game". Should Netflix be forced to show me something from Canada instead of promoting Squid Game simply because they are legally forced to? Rent-seekers seem to think so! Why try to innovate and compete in a fair marketplace when you can simply have special rules that your content has to be promoted?

didibus 5y ago
> Rent-seekers seem to think so! Why try to innovate and compete in a fair marketplace when you can simply have special rules that your content has to be promoted? This is missing my point, because you are reducing the content to a mindless product of consumption. The point of promoting and prioritizing Canadian content is not financially motivated. It is politically motivated. The point is to safeguard free speech and the right to be heard of Canadians within Canadian society. That means that first nations should have a proportional spot in broadcasts. If they represent 5% of all Canadians, then all broadcast should include 5% of their speech, ideas, and culture, which let their voices, opinions, values, morales, and heritage be spoken and heard through the content, be it news media, opinion pieces, talk shows, stories, etc.
- 908B64B197 5y ago
  > The point of promoting and prioritizing Canadian content is not financially motivated. It is politically motivated. Of course. Even more so when you consider a big portion of that it through a government owned and controlled broadcaster.

didibus 5y ago

> Rent-seekers seem to think so! Why try to innovate and compete in a fair marketplace when you can simply have special rules that your content has to be promoted? This is missing my point, because you are reducing the content to a mindless product of consumption. The point of promoting and prioritizing Canadian content is not financially motivated. It is politically motivated. The point is to safeguard free speech and the right to be heard of Canadians within Canadian society. That means that first nations should have a proportional spot in broadcasts. If they represent 5% of all Canadians, then all broadcast should include 5% of their speech, ideas, and culture, which let their voices, opinions, values, morales, and heritage be spoken and heard through the content, be it news media, opinion pieces, talk shows, stories, etc.

908B64B197 5y ago
> The point of promoting and prioritizing Canadian content is not financially motivated. It is politically motivated. Of course. Even more so when you consider a big portion of that it through a government owned and controlled broadcaster.