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I see a lot of negativity regarding "The French" (their TV programs, their culture, and OMG their communist government?!?) and I just hate it every time I see it. The demeaning attitudes are hurtful, and don't usually contribute anything.
Here is the best summary I've read so far:
https://allenmendelsohn.com/2023/04/welcome-to-the-online-st...
Digital first creators, Canadian YouTubers and TikTokers (ex Linus Tech Tips), stand to lose the most from this. Their livelihoods are under threat.
This is because of a clause in the bill that seeks to regulate user generated content. Months of senate testimony concluding that user generated content is in scope of the bill. The senate introduced an amendment to exclude user generated content, but the government rejected the amendment, while insisting this will not affect user generated content.
The heritage minister claimed in an interview that the only opposition to this bill came from YouTube. This is despite months of testimony from digital first creators expressing grave concerns about this bill.
Other facts to keep in mind about C-11:
1. The heritage minister gets to define Canadian content only after the bill has passed 2. Cabinet can overrule any decisions made by the CRTC, the Canadian equivalent of the FCC.
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The CBC is biased because they'll be a significant beneficiary of the bill -- they're a big source of Canadian content that others can license, so this will help them get paid. No need to go deep into conspiracy land for the bias.
Is it a conspiracy theory to assume that an organization is biased towards the source of its funding? Especially when the opposition has openly stated that they would cut it by a lot? It's completely fine to say that the CBC isn't biased, but it's not necessarily a conspiracy theory to say that it is.
It's all the exemptions and correspondence between the CBC and cabinet, the treasury board, and other arms of the government that is absolutely not made public in any way whatsoever:
https://frpc.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/2023-04-26-Hidde...
The French speaking part of Canada of which I am a part of generally view this legislation positively since it does mean more money for culture in French. Money that currently goes toward English content. Now if we could actually produce quality shows it would be great (right now its like 90% bad soap/romcom/cop shows), otherwise the younger generations (me included) will just continue to watch US English content. If…
(also french Canadian) I think at this point we should accept that the french language will die out. We are a tiny minority in a sea of english speaking, it doesn’t make sense anymore in the age of internet. It has a huge cost for business and thus people and make us disadvantaged vs english speaking. I just wish we would finally move on, but as french is fading, the government is tightening its grip, reducing the fr…
A French Canadian expat here in the bay told me once "if our language is to die out, at least I'll make sure my kids are free".
I think had '95 turned out differently, some VCs here would be a little bit poorer, but the Republic of Quebec would have kept a stellar engineer.
> As an example I cannot send my kids to english school (because I went to french school) but my neighbor that is as french as me can.
Sounds these laws needs tightening. No reasons to operate two parallel school districts.
I'm a Canadian who's been following C-11 and before that C-10 for the 2 years the government has been working to pass this legislation. Here is the best summary I've read so far: https://allenmendelsohn.com/2023/04/welcome-to-the-online-st... Digital first creators, Canadian YouTubers and TikTokers (ex Linus Tech Tips), stand to lose the most from this. Their livelihoods are under threat. This is because of a clause…
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Quotas are great exactly for this reason. In France before quotas in cinemas, the quality of the films was poor. But when you he cinemas were forced to show French film in. x amount of screenings, desperate not to lose money they started to fund the films themselves and make films that were as profitable as possible. This led to a positive loop where 1. The cinemas would look for lucrative films to fund 2. Creating a…
I'm not sure it always works. Canada has had this system in place for radio and TV for ~50 years. Radio has sort of worked maybe but TV? No way. Maybe once a decade there's a half decent show worth watching.
As a Canadian, I am of two minds about it. FM radio is required to broadcast Canadian produced or performed music at least for 35% of the time. There are not too many, in absolute numbers, songs that are both Canadian and popular which results in few songs being broadcast to death. At least that was the case when I used to listen to FM radio. On the other hand, that legislation certainly helped Canadian artists.
>> FM radio is required to broadcast So, how does this work on Spotify? Am I now required to listen to Nickelback?
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> Bossing around entities on the internet to give special treatment to your niche causes is the new thing, is what everyone all of a sudden is giving themselves laws to do. In Canada the only unique thing here is the “on the Internet” component of your sentence. Canada has been bullying business of all sorts into all sorts of things under the guise of “culture” for decades. Apparently our culture is so weak that it c…
> Apparently our culture is so weak that it can’t stand up on its own and needs the entire edifice of government to prop it up. It's interesting to me that I live reasonably close to the Canadian border on the US side and yet literally the only Canadian media I know of is Trailer Park Boys / Letterkenny.
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But there's a massive industry of film shot in Canada. Start watching the credits and the supporting actors are very often Canadian, with projects shot in Vancouver or Toronto and 'local' hires to fill out the cast.
Which often or usually aren't considered Canadian content due to non-Canadian actors, writers, financiers, etc. so they don't contribute to the quota anyways.