Comments on: Google Nexus Phone Joins the List of Technologies Not Available in Canada http://www.loudmurmurs.com/2010/01/05/google-nexus-phone-not-available-in-canada/ "Be the change you wish to see in the world." — Mahatma Gandhi Mon, 25 Jul 2011 17:05:21 +0000 hourly 1 By: David Drucker http://www.loudmurmurs.com/2010/01/05/google-nexus-phone-not-available-in-canada/comment-page-1/#comment-19490 David Drucker Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:28:48 +0000 http://www.loudmurmurs.com/?p=1627#comment-19490 I guess the CRTC has outlived it's usefulness, but it's going to be a long process of re-educating the public that Canadian culture and inventiveness needs to be exported, not sequestered and isolated. Are Cirque du Soleil and the Blackberry a result of CRTC 'protection'? I think not. I'd rather see the CRTC act as something like the US's National Endowment for the Arts, mainly promoting and helping to fund worthy artistic and technological ventures. Instead, they seem to spend most of their time keeping things from entering the country or putting out edicts that get laughed at (Bob & Doug McKenzie were a reaction to CanCon, I learned). I guess the CRTC has outlived it’s usefulness, but it’s going to be a long process of re-educating the public that Canadian culture and inventiveness needs to be exported, not sequestered and isolated. Are Cirque du Soleil and the Blackberry a result of CRTC ‘protection’? I think not.

I’d rather see the CRTC act as something like the US’s National Endowment for the Arts, mainly promoting and helping to fund worthy artistic and technological ventures. Instead, they seem to spend most of their time keeping things from entering the country or putting out edicts that get laughed at (Bob & Doug McKenzie were a reaction to CanCon, I learned).

]]> By: Warren Frey http://www.loudmurmurs.com/2010/01/05/google-nexus-phone-not-available-in-canada/comment-page-1/#comment-19489 Warren Frey Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:58:13 +0000 http://www.loudmurmurs.com/?p=1627#comment-19489 The CRTC was conceived as a way to preserve Canadian culture and business in a time of data and spectrum scarcity. That time has now long past, and all the artificial barriers to innovation that are still in place in Canada will keep us mired in the past until we shape up. The CRTC was conceived as a way to preserve Canadian culture and business in a time
of data and spectrum scarcity. That time has now long past, and all the artificial barriers to innovation that are still in place in Canada will keep us mired in the past until we shape up.

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