Jasmin Laine@JasminLaine_
The government promised Bill C-11 would "protect Canadian culture."
Instead, it’s killing independent Canadian creators and local outlets.
Here is the brutal truth of what "CanCon" mandates actually did:
The Lie: "We won't regulate user-generated content."
The Reality: A loophole lets the CRTC micromanage social media algorithms.
The Lie: "It will help Canadians discover your content."
The Reality: Forcing videos onto uninterested feeds kills viewer retention.
The Penalty: The global algorithm flags the video as "bad" and suppresses it worldwide. Since Independent creators rely on global audiences for 80%+ of their income. By "protecting" us domestically, this bill cut us off from the world. All because of a policy designed by legacy TV executives and bureaucrats who don't understand how the internet works.
Don’t let them lie to you. They aren't protecting Canadian content. They are protecting billionaire media conglomerates while crushing the digital entrepreneurs actually building the future. This has been reiterated time and time again in committees but nobody ever hears of it, because the people trusted with carrying the narrative benefit from these authoritarian measures.
And don’t even get me started on C-18…
a “saviour” for Canadian journalism that needed no saving at all in a competitive and merit based market…
in reality, it triggered an absolute catastrophe for local news distribution and grass roots digital publishers… with Google search results being manipulated and news being out right blocked.
We are being silenced by the very laws promised to give us a voice. Let’s be very clear: They didn't save Canadian culture—they just made it a crime to compete globally, all the while isolating Canadians from the real news, and from using their voice in the way that every other country in the world, outside of North Korea is able to freely do.
Spare me with the saviour superiority complex. The only thing we need saving from is this technocratic, totalitarian leaning government overreach.
