Us Canadian Magazine Dispute

The U.S.-Canadian magazine dispute was not extensively motivated by the genuine desires to restore the Canadian culture. Personally, I view it as a fifty fifty sharing deal, culture and domestic trade. To some extent protection of the local publishers market influenced the emergence of the dispute. There is certainly no possible way the government could sit and watch local publishing entities go down and pave way for foreign companies in spite the low production of domestic magazines. Their markets were at some point threatened. The government had to do something. It is certain that magazines contain the only information on events occurring in a particular country and it surely does define a nation’s identity (Levin Institute, pg17). Therefore, culture was a cover up for the protection of these markets from foreign invasion,

The U.S. has an adversely large market and so does her economic scale. This is at the same time advantageous and disadvantageous to Canada as a neighboring party. The American culture is influential. Considering that both countries speak English, market for U.S. magazine is vastly available. Who would not want to read an American magazine? These instances pushed the Canadian government to the wall causing them to take an extra action to protect

If I were the Canadian Government I would use content analysis as a possible criteria to partake, although it is a bit cumbersome. Well, foreign magazines contain foreign content while local ones contain domestic content familiar with the people. Determining the content would aid in distinguishing between split-runs and domestic work. However, foreign subsidiaries could locally publish foreign magazines with local content, just like we have seen above. How the Canadian puplishers mused with the U.S. publishers to print local magazines with 'big '