Nicholas Norman

Canadian Magazine Dispute

I do believe that some of the dispute had to do with the desire to help protect Canadian culture. Canadian magazines is thought to be very important to their national identity because it's really the only national press Canada possesses. In 1965 the Canadian governments even went to the lengths of prohibiting foreign printed magazines from crossing into their borders. There was a tax set in place for split run foreign magazines that did not contain at least 80% Canadian content in it, so it does seem like the government was trying to make sure that there was more effort to include Canadian content in the foreign magazine publishers that were trying to expand their business across the Canadian borders. Although on the flip side of that deal, the foreign magazines would immediately be at a loss unless they created a new Canadian magazine or just stopped selling in Canada altogether, because the taxes would have been too high to make a decent profit.

Like everything in this world, financial interests overcome any other interests. Of course there was a great interest to protect the Canadian magazine market, because they were getting stomped by the foreign magazine industry …show more content…
It can be considered important to Canadian culture because with magazine sales being only at a mere 11% for strictly Canadian-only magazines, there's a clear indication that Canadian culture is extremely low in popularity compared to their foreign counterparts. This would make sense on why the Canadian government wanted their people to have more Canadian magazines in order to reintroduce their culture onto the citizens. This can also be looked at as unimportant to Canadian culture because the Canadians don't seem to interested in their culture if the Canadian magazine sales are only at