http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/588649
http://www.google.com/hostednews/can...axN3UVU3db2rOg
Screw you CRTC, you've already screwed with Canadians for 20 years on radio and television. Now you are thinking of regulating the internet? The one place where free form and expression and free competition of good ideas has a chance? Nobody wants to pay more money to the ISPs or more taxes just to fund "Canadian Content" or to do liscensing or requiring a percentage of Canadian content or to fund these sorts of futile endeavours. "Canadian Content" is bull****. I'm sorry ACTRA and Canadian Conference of the Arts and whatever groups are lobbying for this...but the internet is a competition for good ideas. If Canadian Content is getting lost - it's because it's not good enough to compete or capture the imaginations of people to create any demand. In a day an age where a kid can create his own video in his basement which can virally permeate to millions of people, it should be up to these people to make content good enough to warrant the attention on the internet that it deserves.
I don't think the CRTC has ever done any good in their attempts to regulate or enforce Canadian content rules. How does hearing the Tragically Hip or Bryan Adams hits from the late 80s on my radio all freaking day long help me or any other Canadians or really help this country? It's ridiculous and worse that good money, taxes, airtime (and eventually internet time?) keep getting diverted to deadends that actually make this country more laughable with mediocre, middle of the road, safe-choice, faux-nationalistic content than create anything good. Expanding this to the internet is the thinking of old fashioned ludites and greedy folks.
This is Stalin communism at it's best. We'll get charged more money for our internet bills or our taxes (did our taxes really go to funding Passhendale?) because they are funneling money to god knows where and ISPs and websites will just fill their Kremlin (CRTC) mandated quotas of Canadian content or material regardless of quality and wash rinse repeat ad infinitum.