Canadian Magazine Dispute Case Study
If I am to choose one of the topics for this Written Assignment Unit 6; I will definitely discuss on the “Canadian Magazine Dispute” this is because according to these question bellow are:
To what extent do you think the U.S.-Canadian magazine dispute was motivated by genuine desires to protect Canadian culture?
This is because, it was done for the purpose to avoid the new tax, a publisher would have to produce a magazine that contained at least 80 percent Canadian content. And that is why the Canadian federal government was tried to protect its domestic magazine producers in the name of culture and by adding a significant new tax on all advertising revenue for what it considered to be a split-run publication of the magazine.
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Because the foreign magazines producers would be put at a significant disadvantage selling their magazines in Canada because of the new fix tax impose to other non-Canadian magazine.
Given that Canadian magazines constitute only 11 percent magazine sales in Canada, how important is this matter to Canadian culture?
In this case, as 89 percent of magazines sold in Canada are foreign, most of which are mainly American Magazine. Meanwhile in the spite of the low proportion of domestically produced magazines in Canada, and that the Canadian government has nonetheless identified the production of magazines as an important touchstone of Canadian national identity. Therefore; Canadian governmental Committee on Mass Media concluded that the magazines constitute the only national press they possess in Canada. Magazines, in a different way from any other medium, can help foster in Canadians a sense of themselves
And, if Canadians seem to prefer buying American magazines, shouldn't they be allowed to "vote" with their purchasing …show more content…
The best thing for the government to do is the method of “Time-Warner” (the world's largest communications company) which could now argue that their split-run magazine could genuinely be considered Canadian: this is because it contained some of the most important Canadian content that was mostly in the form of advertisements so as to attract the intension of the domestic magazine fully, and it’s a split-run version of one of its U.S. magazines, Sports Illustrated. But they produced the magazine in the United States and then transmit the magazine contents electronically to a Canadian printer via satellite. Also, and or the other alternative way to distinguish in-between a split run and a domestic magazine if where to avoid the new tax, a publisher would have to produce a magazine that contained at least 80 percent Canadian content for government to protect its domestic magazine
To what extent do you think the U.S.-Canadian magazine dispute was motivated by genuine desires to protect Canadian culture?
This is because, it was done for the purpose to avoid the new tax, a publisher would have to produce a magazine that contained at least 80 percent Canadian content. And that is why the Canadian federal government was tried to protect its domestic magazine producers in the name of culture and by adding a significant new tax on all advertising revenue for what it considered to be a split-run publication of the magazine.
To what …show more content…
Because the foreign magazines producers would be put at a significant disadvantage selling their magazines in Canada because of the new fix tax impose to other non-Canadian magazine.
Given that Canadian magazines constitute only 11 percent magazine sales in Canada, how important is this matter to Canadian culture?
In this case, as 89 percent of magazines sold in Canada are foreign, most of which are mainly American Magazine. Meanwhile in the spite of the low proportion of domestically produced magazines in Canada, and that the Canadian government has nonetheless identified the production of magazines as an important touchstone of Canadian national identity. Therefore; Canadian governmental Committee on Mass Media concluded that the magazines constitute the only national press they possess in Canada. Magazines, in a different way from any other medium, can help foster in Canadians a sense of themselves
And, if Canadians seem to prefer buying American magazines, shouldn't they be allowed to "vote" with their purchasing …show more content…
The best thing for the government to do is the method of “Time-Warner” (the world's largest communications company) which could now argue that their split-run magazine could genuinely be considered Canadian: this is because it contained some of the most important Canadian content that was mostly in the form of advertisements so as to attract the intension of the domestic magazine fully, and it’s a split-run version of one of its U.S. magazines, Sports Illustrated. But they produced the magazine in the United States and then transmit the magazine contents electronically to a Canadian printer via satellite. Also, and or the other alternative way to distinguish in-between a split run and a domestic magazine if where to avoid the new tax, a publisher would have to produce a magazine that contained at least 80 percent Canadian content for government to protect its domestic magazine