Canadian Magazine Dispute Case Study

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For this assignment I chose the Canadian Magazine Dispute as the topic.

The reason I chose this topic over the whaling issue is that it has a high economic relevance as well as a cultural importance.

In my humble opinion the desire was pretty genuine, but also motivated by economic reasons.

With Canada being about a century younger than the USA it had a desire to protect its relatively young culture and further establish their own culture, as to not become indistinguishable from the US culture.

This desire to preserve their own national identity and further develop it is understandable and completely justified.

Due to domestic magazines being not nearly as much sold as foreign magazines, it is highly unlikely that lobbyism did take place.

It is simply a
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Before that however magazines may have been a portrayal of current cultural preferences and foreign products may have indeed contributed a fair amount to a foreignization of Canadian culture.

Foreign companies, especially from the US, may be financially better-off and thus more able to distribute their products.

This is a problem which only gets worse over time, as domestic magazines may find it harder to compete with a limited amount of revenue.

Even though I have to say that I am absolutely for people being able to "vote" with their purchasing power when we are speaking about economic developments, but due to an involvement of culture the government is in need to provide a fair playing field for all companies.

Completely excluding foreign magazines would be the wrong decision, but support of domestic companies, through for example tax breaks would be a viable option in my eyes.

Whilst the idea is not inherently bad, I cannot fully support this, as it distorts the market value of foreign