Silly Little Country

The Pigs are Back at the Trough

The CRTC is holding what I would guess are sham hearings. I dearly hope I am wrong.

Television coverage today has featured the likes of R. H. Thomson, arguing of course, though not in these words, that he needs to be subsidized by government regulation. No doubt many others of his ilk will appear and make the same case.

As for me, I'd be delighted if many of the rules were dropped and we just had HBO and ESPN on our satellite or cable feed. And I would be even more delighted to put an end to the special pleading of the Canadian arts community, which simply embarrasses me with its assertion that the government has to support them to fight against the tastes of Canadian audiences.

Labels: rent-seeking CRTC

posted by Alan Adamson @ 6:57 PM