Path: newshog.newsread.com!bad-news.newsread.com!netaxs.com!newsread.com!feeder.qis.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.cwix.com!news-in.mts.net!canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca!tribune.usask.ca!rover.ucs.ualberta.ca!not-for-mail From: Keith Morrison Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Canadian Science Fiction/Fantasy? Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 23:58:25 -0600 Organization: NTNet Lines: 30 Message-ID: <3AE90A81.37A431F9@polarnet.ca> References: <3AE88AEF.4F6F94EF@moh.hnet.bc.ca> <20010427003218.13665.00001237@ng-cu1.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pike.ntnet.nt.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf Cache-Post-Path: pike.ntnet.nt.ca!unknown@pmisc23.polarnet.ca X-Cache: nntpcache 2.3.3 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Xref: bad-news.newsread.com rec.arts.sf.written:745899 "Jordan S. Bassior" wrote: > >> Canadian-content rules don't affect me at all. _I_ can watch programs from > >> anywhere. > > > >Jordan, it's been pointed out to you more than once that we can too. > > And it's been pointed out to you more than once that the effect of demanding > that a certain percentage of programming be Canadian-content implicitly crowds > out some non-Canadian programming, _unless_ the viewers were demanding Canadian > content anyway (in which case they'd get it without the law, making the law > pointless). In this corner, wearing red and white, we have Canadians who watch TV programs. In that corner we have Jordan Bassior, who does not live in Canada and has quite eloquently expressed his rather limited knowledge of the country on more occasions than I could possibly list. Jordan Bassior says we cannot get programming. The Canadians say we can. Jordan Bassior does not live in Canada. Jordan Bassior does not watch Canadian television. Yet Jordan Bassior attempts to tell those of us who do live in Canada and do watch Canadian television that we are not, in fact, seeing what we are seeing on our televisions. Right. -- Keith