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That's what happens when you mostly just watch American content and don't support local productions, the government doesn't see the point of funding the public broadcaster properly. Funny how Radio-Canada is more profitable than CBC even if French Canadians are not even a quarter of the population.
It's what happens when conservatives scream "But muh tax dollars!" and succeed in getting CBC's funding cut.
Fuck Poilievre and every one of his syncophants.
Oh it's been an issue even before Harper was in power!
Well I mean, French Canadian Radio Canada has francophone content that's distinctively from French Canadian/QuΓ©bΓ©cois culture or even France that you can't find in American media.
Unlike a lot of the content on anglophone media in general that might be originating from the US.
Maybe that's why it's more popular?
Correct me if I'm wrong.
Sure and that's my point, we encourage our own culture while Anglo Canadians just watch American content. We very well could settle for dubbed shows or shows from France, we don't.
No american TV here. I'll be in bed by 10, just like any other day. What's the big deal about the new year? (Serious question, I never understood)
That was a comment on Anglo Canadian cultural habits in general, not just on that specific day.
CBC has on average 4% market shares, R-C is at 23% if I recall correctly. Anglo Canadians complain about the lack of Canadian original content but at the same time they've been moving away from Canadian broadcasters for decades in favor of watching American broadcasts while French Canadians punch way above their weight when looking at the amount of content they produce for how little of the North American population they represent.
The result is what we're seeing now, CBC cutting one of their major show because they don't have the revenue necessary to produce it while the government has been cutting their funds for decades because most MPs don't understand the point of having a public broadcaster that guarantees access to local culture.
I think you explained it much better here. I just don't understand how multiculturalism is to blame.
Yeah, this looks like the exact opposite of multiculturism. The guys who preferentially don't share a language with 95% of the population of the continent consume more local content than those who share a common language with 80% of the continent.
Eh... That's what I'm saying? Multiculturalism isn't a thing in Quebec and French Canadians proportionally have a lot more cultural productions while Anglo Canadians have multiculturalism so to them there's nothing special about their own culture so might as well just settle for American culture since it's in the same language.
Multiculturalism is a system in which there's a mix of culture that don't blend together. There's no "Canadian culture", there's just a bunch of people with their own culture all calling themselves Canadians. There's no central cultural element that people get attached to so in the end you've got a national broadcaster that no one cares about since cultural productions from elsewhere are seen as just as important as local ones and with the US' influence... Well, English Canada doesn't have much of a chance, does it? Not as if Anglo Canadians were told their culture is important anyway...
Meanwhile in Quebec you've got interculturalism where everyone is invited as long as they want to integrate themselves and it shows in the amount of culture produced by French Canadians for French Canadians and by the fact that R-C even gets defended by the separatist parties because it's a very important element to the survival of French Canadian culture.
What's the big deal about Christmas or Valentine's Day? Nothing, except that people enjoy the excuse to celebrate.
it's an excuse for an occasion to get together with friends/family. that's it.
I mean the government did just pass bill c11 which is supposed to force Canadian made content down our throats, so there's that.
Corporate Canadian made content. Little guys don't count.