Posted on 10/11/2004 4:57:06 AM PDT by Clive
In the run up to the 2000 federal election, Maclean's magazine had a front page feature on Canadian Alliance leader Stockwell Day entitled, "Just how scary?"
For many, the man in that election who really was "scary" was Prime Minister Jean Chretien, who went on to browbeat bank managers into giving his friends taxpayer-funded loans, funnelled more taxpayer money into Liberal-friendly advertising agencies in Quebec, and basically ignored then Privacy Commissioner George Radwanski's abuses.
But no, it was the impeccably decent Day who was deemed too "scary" by Maclean's magazine to lead the nation.
Several months before Governor General Adrienne Clarkson took 60 of her friends and their partners on a multimillion dollar foreign junket -- again with the taxpayers' money-- Maclean's did another cover story, the basis of it being Clarkson is a Canadian icon, a woman who has enhanced Rideau Hall, and one we should all revere.
Following the scandal-ridden foreign junket there was no re-assessment of Clarkson's frightening lavish style of living at our expense or her arrogance to the Canadian people.
The Oct. 4 cover story is on the current controversy regarding the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission sandbagging of Fox News TV's entry into Canada.
You immediately get the tone from the headlines, which slap you in the face: "Rude and rabidly pro-Bush Fox News now wants to come here. Is Canada ready for Loudmouth TV?"
The slurs -- for that's what they are -- appear in overly large type with a picture of one of the network's top personalities, commentator Bill O'Reilly, pointing his finger, obviously in condemning and exasperating manner over some Lib-Left boondoggle.
Naturally, the tone of the inside articles is media magnate Rupert Murdoch's channel is not worthy of being seen by sensitive and sensible Canadians.
Although this time, the CRTC, after trying to close down a small Quebec radio station, and then allowing Al-Jazeera, the favourite Islamic terrorist network to broadcast into our country, Fox News is likely to win the battle, even with CRTC and federal Liberal disapproval.
The CRTC -- like the CBC and the Supreme Court of Canada, appears to be a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Liberal Party of Canada. A patronage trough for backroom Liberals.
Maclean's, too, appears to be in the same league, and if you ask why, in that case, I have a three-year subscription, my answer is the old one: Know your enemy.
Maclean's isn't quite as all-out partisan as the Toronto Star, but the pap and propaganda it churns out often makes it appear like a Liberal house organ.
The reasons Fox News' attempts to be picked up in Canada have been sabotaged is because its commentators talk about "values" and governmental responsibility to act wisely in areas including the economy, spending, taxing, making the justice system work for the innocent not as a loophole for the guilty, keeping the country militarily safe, and ridding it of the pornography and violence on TV screens and being spewed out from Hollywood.
Once prominent and articulate individuals with vast audiences start talking about "values" the Lib-Lefters start to worry that their sham world may be in danger of collapse. That's particularly so in our own country, where the past Liberal prime ministers, Pierre Trudeau, Jean Chretien and now Paul Martin, eroded "values" in the very areas Fox News zeroes in on.
Neither Trudeau, Chretien nor Martin had or have long-term economic and industrial scenarios.
Spending has relentlessly grown, and so have taxes. Police are hamstrung. Our military almost non-existent. Pornography floats across TV and movie screens. To have religious beliefs is seen as archaic.
If Fox News makes Canadians think about "values," the entire Lib-Left structure of our nation will collapse.
Hence, allowing Fox News to beam its common-sense philosophies into our nation has to be halted, or, delayed as long as possible.
Martin and his Lib-Left crew would much prefer us to get our daily intake of political commentary from those they can trust not to rock the boat: The CBC's Peter Mansbridge and his compliant staffers or CBS's Dan Rather.
Yet the blackout on Fox News is surely coming to an end.
Since Fox regularly beats CNN in the ratings, you can guess what it will do to the CBC, already hardly watched by anyone except its fawning Lib-Left adherents.
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It's interesting that they don't have freedom of speech in Canada.
Communism has taken deep root in Canada, it has invaded America and IT truely is the war we face today.
Communism has taken deep root in Canada, it has invaded America and IT truely is the war we face today.
Canadian broadcast laws require 50 percent canadian content on every channel so Fox can't be broadcasted. American cable channels can't be broadcasted. The Canadian population is held hostage and doesn't know the extent of the censorship they are enduring.
Violates NAFTA.
Just have Fox include re-runs of Bob & Doug McKenzie's Great White North every half hour.
"Take off!" "No, you take off!"
Canadians already get CNN and AJ. Cable channels do not broadcast, they are a closed feed, and perhaps may not be forced to meet the same requirements as network broadcasts.
I am not sure how Canadian law differentiates, but I do know that the FCC has different sets of guidelines for both.
It's a violation of both GATT and NAFTA for the Canadian government to discriminate against American companies. The US should take them in front of the WTO.
Fox News ... bring it on!
..."Since Fox regularly beats CNN in the ratings, you can guess what it will do to the CBC, already hardly watched by anyone except its fawning Lib-Left adherents."
The "fawning Lib-Left adherents" amount to about 80% of the population of Canuckistan. We've seen what the Canucks are made of, considering the manner in which they re-elected the Liberals and Martin, regardless of having common knowledge of this party's scandals and cowardice. Watching Fox News wouldn't have given them any more information then they already had. Broadcasting Fox News there won't matter a whit. Canucks are irredeemable.
God Save Australia!
F**k Canuckistan!
Agreed.
I put in my support for Fox's application through the CRTC website.
Where a US network and a Canadian one are running the same program at the same time, the cable company must take its feed from the Canadian network.
Al Jazeera is allowed to run but the cable companies have to have a time-delay and monitor it to remove abusive content, a condition which has never before been attached to a licence. This condition would make the Canadian cable carrier responsible and liable for Al Jazeera's content. As a result, the Canadian cable companies are refusing to run Al Jazeera.
Canadian content rules apply to Canadian stations and networks, not to US stations or networks.
FoxNews will bring down the Liberal government in Canada.
BRING IT ON!
Buy a DTV satellite dish in the U.S., register the receiver from a U.S. address and set up a direct pay account from a bank. The dish will work anywhere near the U.S. (with a view of the southern sky) - which is 95% of Canada by population. It might even work in Edmonton.
There are probably laws against this but I doubt they are enforced. And the initial outlay is minimal since DTV is running promotions. Plus you get loads more channels.
No, there is a specific exemption in NAFTA for Canadian culture. It is also illegal for an American to run a bookstore or book distribution company in Canada as well (probably not enforced, but on the books).
Sounds like Nafta is a one way street. How about GATT? Does it violate GATT?
Man, you sound really tough!
Are you aware that Americans re-elected Bill Clinton?
Even slightly aware?
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