>>They are trying to regulate culture and it just won't work. Are they seriously going to kid themselves into believing that American culture hasn't influence Canadian culture just because they insist that there must be x number of Canadians in a movie for it to count? It's ridiculous. I find it unfortunate that culture itself seems to try so desperately to flow to the lowest level, but that's life. These kinds of choices should be left to the people themselves, and not to a bunch of bureaucrats who have no idea what my tastes are and couldn't care less.
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>I agree with many things you said. But I still think that there should be some kind of protection. This is a complex topic. I don't think that we really have much impact on the choice of what's playing on the radio for instance. If there are no laws regulating what's playing on the radio I'm afraid we'll only hear "Madonna, Beyonce..." in short what the big corporations decide what we should listen to.

Well, these days we have the Internet - that's what has the big boys so desperately worried. In many ways, labels and media conglomerates *used* to have more power over what we consume than they do today.

With YouTube, MySpace etc. it's easier than ever to get your message or work out to a wide audience. And, you don't have to watch or listen to what "they" offer, if you don't want to.