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Laws like these existed in the music and film industries for years and it helped foster local talent. Even public radios had to have a percentage of Canadian music on the air.

Streaming services have circumvented this and this law changes that for the better.

The kind of cynicism on display about anything that Trudeau does is frankly disconcerting. Even a broken clock can be right twice a day.



Broken clocks don't belong in office though, do they?


Just because wealth transfers for culture existed before doesn’t make them right nor does it make the implementation of this policy good.

Good policy is good if you reverse the winners and see if the people implementing it complain. So if we take this tax and fund media for men and white people instead of women, First Nation and immigrants would it still be good policy?

No this is political patronage




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