I think a lot of that is because the Americans are right there and they export a ton of American exceptionalism to us through their media. And have done since the earliest days of newspapers.
While the Cancon regulations were a level of protection from that overwhelming presence, they didn’t go far enough (IMHO)
I have long advocated for the cable TV foreign carriage regulations to require no more than 30% of international channels to be from any single country. That would have reduced the overwhelming impact that American “culture” has had on Canada.
Alas, with cable’s growing irrelevance, that opportunity is long gone.
That 30% max idea is brilliant. Instead it was always American content and forced Canadian content most of which did not grab me but the odd British show did but they were only on one channel and a small percent of that channel growing up.
I wish we where better we keep comparing ourselves to America. But why are we not comparing ourselves to European countries.
I think a lot of that is because the Americans are right there and they export a ton of American exceptionalism to us through their media. And have done since the earliest days of newspapers.
While the Cancon regulations were a level of protection from that overwhelming presence, they didn’t go far enough (IMHO)
I have long advocated for the cable TV foreign carriage regulations to require no more than 30% of international channels to be from any single country. That would have reduced the overwhelming impact that American “culture” has had on Canada.
Alas, with cable’s growing irrelevance, that opportunity is long gone.
That 30% max idea is brilliant. Instead it was always American content and forced Canadian content most of which did not grab me but the odd British show did but they were only on one channel and a small percent of that channel growing up.