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SPP Summit - New Orleans
April 21-22, 2008
SPP Summit - Montebello
August 19-21, 2007
Teach-in
March 31 to April 1, 2007
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Workshop 8
Defending Canadian culture and media in the era of Canada-U.S. integration
Description
The past ten years has seen a steady erosion of Canada’s capacity to produce music, films, television programs, books and magazines. While Canada continues to produce world-class artists and creators, we are increasingly challenged to bring their stories, films and music to Canadian and global audiences. A number of factors are key, including: media mergers; the disappearance of major Canadian-owned companies in the music, publishing and commercial advertising industries; increasing foreign ownership in book publishing and broadcasting; the crisis in Canadian television drama; the continuing funding crisis of the CBC; the refusal of the CRTC to regulate content on the Internet; and our inability to address structural problems of Canada’s magazine industry because of WTO rules.
Largely driven by the needs of the U.S. entertainment industry, the future will bring even more challenges. For instance, the federal cabinet is ready to begin to deregulate broadcasting and other cultural industries and open them to foreign ownership. Canadian content rules, essential for our music and television sectors, are at risk. And the new CRTC chair is a free-trader who favours deregulation. The SPP adds pressure on our cultural sector. Come and discuss these issues and how to respond at the Culture Forum.
Leaders
Peter Murdoch, Vice-President, Media, Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP)
Ian Morrison, Friends of Canadian Broadcasting
Garry Neil, Executive Director, International Network for Cultural Diversity
Roy MacSkimming,
author of The Perilous Trade: Publishing Canada's Writers (McClelland & Stewart, 2003)
Language
Workshop presented in English. Questions in either English or French.
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