We shouldn’t be paying more for Canadian content

There may be good reasons to revisit the Copyright Act after only five years, as was mandated when the act was passed into law in 2012. But I have to hope that nothing is allowed to dissuade Canadian educators from introducing Canadian authors to the next generation of Canadian creators.
Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains, right, pictured June 7, 2017, on the Hill testing out a hydrogen fuel cell car, along with Liberal MP David Lametti, is the federal minister responsible for the Copyright Act.
Most of the books on my shelf, like most on my tablet, are by authors who I was introduced to at school or university. It has therefore been quite surprising to me to read some of the recent press releases of publisher associations and groups which lobby on behalf of creators. They seem to promote r...

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