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I’m annoyed to find forced Canadian content on any of my services or channels. It’s ridiculous and unnecessary. Canadians are disproportionately represented in
by Waterluvian 4y ago
I’m annoyed to find forced Canadian content on any of my services or channels. It’s ridiculous and unnecessary.
Canadians are disproportionately represented in Hollywood and on TV. Our cities are constantly used for filming. We are a significant contributor to North American content.
Geography has gifted us one of the best neighbours for commerce and media, among things. One of the prices of that is that our culture is often drowned out or absorbed by American productions.
The solution isn’t to force a pitched field. The solution is to do the insufferable thing of making sure everyone knows which actors are Canadian. ;)
But if they’re going to play House Hippo or Heritage Minutes before each Netflix video, I might just be okay with that. Though, “Don’t You Put it in Your Mouth” might be a weird lead-in to porn videos.
- 908B64B197 4y ago> forced Canadian content To me this is completely bizarre, not unlike old soviet censors looking at movies and deciding what was “soviet enough” to get the approval from the bureaucracy. Disney and Marvel made billions of dollars simply making content people want to watch and pay for, why not simply do the same and compete in the marketplace? Imagine how ridiculous it would be if there were quotas on iPhone sold so that BlackBerry still had a legally mandated market share.
- Waterluvian 4y agoYup. And we’ve had these laws for TV and radio for a long time now. The result is that we generate a bunch of crap to fill the quotas. Which is silly because there’s a bunch of really awesome Canadian shows that never needed the government’s help, and my American friends enjoy them all the time.