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From: chapman@fornax.uucp
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Free trade, Canadian culture, $$
Message-ID: <197@fornax.uucp>
Date: Tue, 24-Feb-87 03:03:51 EST
Article-I.D.: fornax.197
Posted: Tue Feb 24 03:03:51 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 24-Feb-87 06:35:34 EST
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Organization: School of Computing Science, SFU, Burnaby, B.C. Canada
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> 
> I wrote
> >>. Considering what the
> >> CBC does with its nearly 1 billion dollars I wouldn't hold my breath in
> >> any theatre lineup waiting for these movies.
> 
> In article <188@fornax.uucp> chapman@fornax.uucp (John Chapman) writes:
> >I must be missing something here. What does having Canadian owned (and
> >therefore controlled) distributors for movies have to do with the CBC
> >or any crown corporation? Nothing like that was even hinted at either
> >in my posting or in the Sun editorial.
> 
> I fail to see how changing the distributors of a movie to some Canadian
> company is going to result in more "good" Canadian movies. The US
> owners of the movie are still going to want to make their profit and

 And they will.  The proposed legislation would enable the actual
 producers of a movie to distribute it in Canada but if a third party
 is to be used to distribute it to Canadian movie houses then it must
 be a Canadian company.  Hardly an onerous situation for the movie
 producers.  What gall we have eh? Insisting that some of the services
 operating in Canada actually benefit Canadians in some way! The nerve
 of some people.
.
.
. 
> Donald Acton

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