Soon we’ll need a new dictionary—which I have no doubt the benevolent government will 
fund inasmuch as it would include Canadian content, and therefore the state will be seen to be obligated to “support” it, because no private Canadian citizen will bother to do it or support it or invest in it on their own, knowing that the benevolent government will do it anyway—maybe in direct competition with them. Sa-wing yer partner round and round.
After officially banning state-owned and state-run media (CBC) in Canada, which the government should do forthwith and then enshrine the notion in our Constitution, personally, I would re-write the entire Broadcast Act and related Acts of the state concerning what we’re to watch on TV and listen to on the radio, manifestly in such a way as to stop telling Canadians what they’re allowed to watch on TV and listen to on the radio. Then I would tell the “Canadian television Fund” to take a flying leap, and then close it.
Or you could do what the Conservative government is doing.
Oda pledges $200M to Canadian Television Fund
Heritage Minister Bev Oda announced Friday the federal government’s continued support of the Canadian Television Fund, with a pledge of $200 million in funding over the next two fiscal years.
The funding commitment, designated for 2007-2008 and 2008-2009, “will allow for longer term planning and provide stability for the sectors,” Oda said in statement Friday morning.
If only it was said in Russian, it would sound exactly like a statement from any one of the 800 government secretariats in the failed Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Let’s give it a whirl:
“will allow for longer term planning and provide stability for the sectors,” =
”позволит более длинный срок планировать и обеспечит стабильность для секторов”
This is the attitude that grates :
“I want to reassure Canadians that the government continues to support high-quality Canadian television programming.”
—Bev Oda
Who the H-E-double hockey sticks doesn’t “support” “high-quality Canadian” TV shows? (And I cringe at the word “programming” in place of TV shows, because that’s precisely what much of it is—liberal-leftist propaganda and “programming”, which the “progressives” might also call “early learning”—wink!).
So a suggestion to Bev Oda: send them a nice supportive email and a Christmas card and tell ‘em we’re all on board and seek to not be bored out of our gourds (it would be more than I’ve ever received from the government for my effort here at PTBC, for example, which competes against the official state opinionators at the state-owned CBC.ca web site).
Don’t continue the liberal-left’s hideous decades-old “we’ll create an official culture by government decree and regulations and a whole whack ‘o taxpayer cash and forced content” experiment, through which countless BILLIONS upon BILLIONS of taxpayer dollars has flowed and our freedom stifled —to little or no positive Canadian cultural effect.
To this day, nobody —except perhaps some self-important, pompous, pseudo-intellectual cultural elitists— can define “Canadian culture”. All we know is that it’s almost identical in every way to American culture because (much to the liberals’ deep chagrin and despite not a little anti-American “programming”) we’re actually much like them culturally and in every which way, and which, as I’ve shown countless times through TV ratings charts, is what Canadians want to watch on TV every day. If Canadians wanted to watch Canadian TV shows, they would. They choose not to. The CBC has a viewership that in a normal free country would bankrupt them ten times over.
This reeks of North Korean or Iranian-style cultural creation by government decree and regulation.
Related blog entries for reference:
– CRTC (State-censor and regulator of what we’re allowed to see on TV and hear on radio) has new chief
– Jim Shaw – my new Canadian hero
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