The argument as it appears to me in my layman's eyes is thus: It is not fair that Canadian Broadcasters have to compete with US stations and that if we were allowed American television unfiltered (meaning without our more often than not useless Canadian ads) broadcasters would lose money, but more importantly Canadians would lose their capacity to understand that they were Canadian and the border would be erased and we would all become the 51st State.
Seriously, I am Canadian and while I am sure it was a relevant paranoia during the establishment of Canadian content legislation, it is hardly something that I or my fellow Canadian citizen worries about on a regular basis. I am not going to turn Yank, just because I see an ad for carpet detergent that is only available in Washington State. I could see the point in creating local Canadian television. However Road to Avonlea went off the air a number of years ago, and I haven't seen anything worth watching that was Canadian made and viewed in a very long time (if any Canadian show were successful, Broadcasters would not be in the pickle they are correct?) Purchasing series from the US hardly constitutes any Canadiana, and passing off US series in Canadian versions (So You Think You Can Dance CANADA) does not have me singing O Canada any louder.
I know I won't win the sim subbing argument. (subbing a Canadian signal when an American Station is showing the same program) However could some one PLEASE answer me how seeing that idiotic man getting crappy signal in the Rogers Ad one thousand times during the Super Bowl, is equipping me to stand on guard for anything!?
If broadcasters are attempting to make an argument for consumers (or cable companies take your pick) to pay subsidies to keep them on the air, not providing online content, sim subbing and providing knock offs of American Programming is a heck of a way to make their point.
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