Our regulators are pretending that quaint old rules can still apply in a world now dominated by online streamers. It won't work
Peter Menzies: Canada's walled content garden has collapsed Many years ago, as a naive new CRTC commissioner, I attended the Canadian film and television industry’s annual Prime Time convention in Ottawa and posed a question. I asked Glen O’Farrell, who led the Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) for many years, if there was a plan or if anyone could foresee a time in a future, more populous Canada — even 50 years from now — when the nation’s film and television industry could thrive without dependence on government subsidies. The answer was a firm “No.” Such a day will never come. Thus began my journey into the mindset of the regulated broadcasting and cultural content-production industries: What exists today will remain as it was in the beginning and ever shall be ... CLICK HERE for the full story