In this political cartoon there is two arms reaching out and strangling a microphone. The two arms have the letters CRTC on them. This stands for Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission. The purpose of the CRTC is to relegate the media that is in Canada and make an effort to make sure that it's Canadian. This is achieved by using a special point system which can allow media that might not seem Canadian to be played throughout Canada. This source is criticizing the CRTC is that it strangling the media to play only Canadian media in Canada. The Canadian media that is being played isn't top quality because the media players like radio stations and TV channels are just trying to up the time that they need to play
media. So they play low budget films and music among other media to fill up the time they need. In order for Canadian media to be good it needs to have a large budget, but a lot of the media that is being put out doesn't so in turn its showing mediocre media instead of Canada’s best media. The intent of the author of this source is to tell the audience what he or she thinks about this situation they can convince others and work towards change. The impact of this source is that it can show Canadian that our system for insuring that we get Canadian media isn't as good as it could be but we could improve this system.