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Deregulation of the TV indistry in Canada will never happen cause the political will is not there to make the hard decisions.
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What he said! The politicians benefit from protecting Can-con interest groups and especially from protecting and subsidizing certain large and well-connected corporations.
The cultural groups who benefit from the Can-con stuff become shrill advocates of any expansion of government programs. They know which side of the bread is buttered. You get Can-con protection, you pay the government back by banging the drum for day care, foreign interventions, more taxes, more regulation, more government. More government is what brings home the bacon for politicians. More government, more face time on TV, more patronage jobs to give out, more pork, more kickbacks, more everything.
The big corporations pay back the politicians more directly with extremely lucrative post-retirement gigs sitting on boards of directors, getting cushy lawyering jobs, etc. with plenty of remuneration in the form of per diems, consulting fees, travel junkets, and so on. You could say there is a revolving door between the big, protected and subsidized corporations and the halls of power. Lobbyists and politicians get corporate gigs, corporate bigwigs run for office (or place their children, sons-in-laws, nephews, etc. in parliament) and vice-versa.
As for serving the overall, broad interests of the public, what's in it for the politicians? Nothing really. It is a far more effective strategy to blow off the general public and then concentrate on buying votes in only a small number of critical ridings and regions where they can get a huge bang for the patronage buck. Even if they make the public so mad that their political party is wiped out from parliament, I think you will find that the top politicians, the ones who sold the public interest down the river, felt no pain at all but transitioned into the sweet, remunerative arms of the same special interests to which they gave away the farm.
There is no downside to politicians making bad decisions against the public interest and plenty of upside. That's why I wouldn't waste much time trying to appeal to politicians' common sense or decency w.r.t. regulatory decisions. You're caught in the perfect storm of media and culture-group complicity, massive corporate lobbying and kickbacks in the form of the revolving door, and the natural tendency of politics to attract (I'll try to put this as politely as possible) craven and morally stunted people. I'm not talking about SOME of the political parties, I'm talking about ALL of 'em. It is the very nature of government to make everything it touches into a monopoly, and it is the nature of monopolies to become corrupt and to invite more corruption.
To sum up, better to spend your time and money seeking freedom and choice from the internet, FTA and OTA TV (especially if you can get US signals), buying stuff from Amazon, etc. than waiting for the politicians to do the right thing. The right thing for you is the wrong thing for them.