Also, this isn’t really anything conceptually new or nefarious as it’s made to sound. Canada has long had a requirement that a certain amount of content is “Ca

Also, this isn’t really anything conceptually new or nefarious as it’s made to sound. Canada has long had a requirement that a certain amount of content is “Canadian”. I have no doubt that without it we wouldn’t have any homegrown content—everything we consumed would be imported from the US. The CRTC’s mandate, by statute, is to administer and enforce this. As we’ve seen a shift away from traditional radio and cable TV, they need to change their approach to fulfill the mandate they’ve been given. This isn’t the government suddenly deciding they want the address of every podcaster so they know where to send the gestapo when they say something politically inconvenient—this is a government agency responding to the changing landscape and applying the same regulations to new media broadcasters as they have been to traditional media.