As reported in the far-left Toronto Star today, the Conservative government is planning on changing the way taxpayer funding is spent on Canadian media, but nonetheless ensure that the socialist state-funded model is maintained and even enhanced.
“The new fund will also support documentaries and variety and performing arts programming that can demonstrate that the market alone would not support their creation.”
—Toronto Star article on Conservative government’s plans. (Again that’s CONSERVATIVE government’s plans.)
Well that doesn’t sound capitalist to me. It sounds like Cuba.
The free market doesn’t support it, so the government will support it. Let me guess: by “investing” taxpayer money in more of those essential services like government-funded sitcoms and dramas and other entertainment and news presentations and political documentaries?
“The government will invest $134.7 million annually in the new program, called the Canada Media Fund, Heritage Minister James Moore said at a press conference today … The emphasis of the new broadcast policy will be on drama, comedy, and children’s programming…”
It has apparently become the role of the benevolent government to provide us with state sitcoms and children’s programming (and “early learning” —wink!).
They should do one of those government-funded documentaries—better yet, a sitcom—on how soon the free citizens’ free market sees no need to “support” or “invest” in anything, particularly when it has to compete against the government, as in the case of the CBC. Hey here’s a question: who wants to start a (real) Canadian 24-hour cable news service in Canada today to compete against the far-left socialism-reliant CBC Newsworld? Anyone? Hello? Is this thing on? Hey look! “The market alone would not support their creation”!
Apparently the state-owned CBC isn’t enough for the free-market democracy-loving capitalists in the Conservative government in Canada. The state-owned Telefilm Canada funding isn’t enough. State-owned Canada Council For The Arts grants aren’t enough. State-owned Aboriginal Media Arts Program isn’t enough. The state-owned National Film Board funding isn’t enough. Federal government Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credits aren’t enough. The federal government’s Canadian International Development Agency’s Development Information Program’s “Mass Media Initiative” funds aren’t enough. Canadian Film Centre funding (funded by federal Heritage ministry, the CBC, the state-owned Telefilm Canada, and the Ontario government among others) aren’t enough. And none of the others in the long growing list of taxpayer funding for media and “artists”… isn’t enough.
Absolutely countless hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars have been spent over the years. To support things that the free market won’t. This is an awful Cuban sit-com.
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