Conservative Would Trash CRTC

Woohoo! you mean we'd get the freedom to choose, it may be un-Canadian but I like it!

Anonoymous, give the money back to the CIA propaganda squad that they pay you.

Even if the Conservatives don't get their way I personally would rather be able to purchase tv by the program. Like pay per vu. I resent paying for programming that I don't endorse as watchable or intellegent or worth spending anyone's money on to produce. If there's going to be any rules made with regards to network tv in Canada let it be that one. I want control over where my money goes and what programming it's endorsing
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The point is people do not have to watch tv and in my opinion with the crap and advertizing that we are subjected to when you turn it on I think we're all better off without it.

I personally disagree with the conservative plan. You know, on the surface, it sounds good. Deregulation means more choices, and possibly at lower costs. But, this is the icing on the dog poop. Without the mandate for Canadian broadcasters to produce Canadian content, the independent film industry would dry up.
Back in the late 1800s, the Anglican church took Indian children out of their homes and placed them in institutional schools. They cut off their braids, and dressed them in the fashions of the day. On the surface, it appeared that they were trying to do good for these savages, when if fact they were practicing 'acculturization'. This is the same motivation, albeit economically driven, to dumb down the Canadian culture, to dilute it, and to own it. What difference would it be to us as consumers, to have Canadian cable companies or satellite service providers offer this service to us? At least we would have some regulation, through the CRTC over the content we get. It's not censorship, its protectionism.
I also agree with the the National Post article, that it would also further dilute the Canadian industries opportunity to sell advertising.

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Darren Olson
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This is part of an article from the NDP website:
(So how will we know what any of the candidates really think and they are the ones to represent us?)

Harper's gag order
Shut-up-and-do-what-you're-told campaign

OTTAWA — The self-proclaimed Conservative champion of free speech Stephen Harper is gagging his candidates in the hopes of preserving his stealth campaign to impose a socially conservative agenda.



However, the Conservative leader Stephen Harper must be kicking himself for not extending his gag order far enough. Former Progressive Conservative MP Rick Borotsik is warning voters to carefully weigh their options before voting.



"Red flags on EI, red flags on official bilingualism, red flags on health care, red flags on abortion, obviously," he told the CBC today. "[Stephen Harper] is not bringing it forward. But if it comes forward from his party, he wouldn't stop it.



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