Canadian Magazine Disputes Case Study
To what extent do you think the U.S.-Canadian magazine dispute was motivated by genuine desires to protect Canadian culture?
It is hard to determinate the real cause if the government of Canada genuinely had the best intentions of protecting the Canadian culture or not. It appears that they saw an opportunity to generate additional revenues by imposing a protective tariff on foreign-published magazines. On the other hand, the report mentioned that many observers believed that these measures were quite effective in protecting the small remaining share of Canada’s domestically produced magazine. Now, this sounds like a more reasonable idea not the idea, stating that Canada was only protecting the cultural values of the Canadian people. If …show more content…
Therefore, the Canadian government felt pleasured to seek to protect their Canadian magazine industry market due to the threat of projected the decline in sales of their Canadian magazines over the import magazines. In terms, the Canadian government felt thratened and force to protect the local magazine industry and prevent the local media industry from running out of business.
Given that Canadian magazines constitute only 11 percent magazine sales in Canada, how important is this matter to Canadian culture?
The Canadian government had cultural concerns that turned into a trade dispute over the sales of overseas magazines in Canada. The Canadian government identifies the production of magazines as an important touchtone of the Canadian national identity. They were prompted to promote Canadian cultural uniqueness in magazine production because, the Canadian people preferred to purchase the American magazines over the Canadian Magazines. They tried to protect their domestic magazine producers in the name of the culture by adding a new tax on all advertising revenue for all split-run
It is hard to determinate the real cause if the government of Canada genuinely had the best intentions of protecting the Canadian culture or not. It appears that they saw an opportunity to generate additional revenues by imposing a protective tariff on foreign-published magazines. On the other hand, the report mentioned that many observers believed that these measures were quite effective in protecting the small remaining share of Canada’s domestically produced magazine. Now, this sounds like a more reasonable idea not the idea, stating that Canada was only protecting the cultural values of the Canadian people. If …show more content…
Therefore, the Canadian government felt pleasured to seek to protect their Canadian magazine industry market due to the threat of projected the decline in sales of their Canadian magazines over the import magazines. In terms, the Canadian government felt thratened and force to protect the local magazine industry and prevent the local media industry from running out of business.
Given that Canadian magazines constitute only 11 percent magazine sales in Canada, how important is this matter to Canadian culture?
The Canadian government had cultural concerns that turned into a trade dispute over the sales of overseas magazines in Canada. The Canadian government identifies the production of magazines as an important touchtone of the Canadian national identity. They were prompted to promote Canadian cultural uniqueness in magazine production because, the Canadian people preferred to purchase the American magazines over the Canadian Magazines. They tried to protect their domestic magazine producers in the name of the culture by adding a new tax on all advertising revenue for all split-run