Imperialism of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Whether it is SNC-Lavalin , CGI Inc , BCE Inc. (which owns Bell Canada) , or CBC , there is always a lot of flag-waving from lobbiests and defenders when these corporation are doing or saying things that corporations with different addresses of their headquarters would never get away with. CBC President Catherine Tait's attempt to flag-wave recently went as far as to claim digital native companies were imperalists . The problem with her analogy is that when it comes to post-convergence digital communications policy, it is representatives of analog-era companies like the CBC that are the foreign entities. Protecting the interests of Canadians from this imperalism is why I have called for a shift of funding away from the CBC to Canadian creators. We need to put the policies which the CBC and Bell promote in a proper context. Taxing Internet connectivity, or digital media distribution companies, to subsidize analog-era broadcasting is about as legitimate as putting a tax on sal