Re: More Canadian censorship

["A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@world.std.com>]

On 8 Jan 00,  Dib9@aol.com wrote:

> You people scare me!  In your hatred of corporations, you are willing to
> turn programming decisions over to the government.  

And of course conservatives, in their hatred of government, are willing to 
turn all sorts of important decisions over to corporations, real estate 
developers, and other unelected people.

BTW, I don't favor government regulation of program content.  However, the 
CBC is a creature of the Canadian Parliament and established to promote 
the national culture.  Parliament does have the right to insist that the 
CBC fulfill its purposes.

The fight is actually over the fact that, like many political bodies, they 
expect to order a government agency to do something without providing the 
necessary funding.  That's an old political battle, and they're going to 
have to decide whether they want something badly enough to be willing to 
put their money where their collective mouths are.


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