The Canadian Magazine Dispute On The United States

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Magazines are nonetheless an important of today’s media, and had the same purpose from as early as the 1730’s. Magazines are periodical publications that contain articles and illustrations which typically cover particular areas or subjects of interest. This source or media is available in countries all over the world and in the case of the twenty-first century, it is readily available all over the internet. Magazines were, however, most popular in the nineteenth century and it was mostly American Magazines. American Magazine publication are circulated in many countries all over the world. And, surely Canada happens to be the closest one, directly north of The United States. Canada has received and continues to receive a substantial amount of imported magazines for America, and the eager Canadian customer are the one who keep this business going but the Canada has a problem with all the foreign media being made available to its people. The Canadian magazine dispute is a result of one of the most prominent conflicts in regards to cultural concerns.

The Canadian committee on mass-media had concluded in this is not one of the first attempts Canada has made in order to protect its culture from domination by its neighbor. America being a much larger may also seem like a threat to the much smaller country up north. Canada has imposed protective tariffs on foreign magazines in the 1920’s and prohibited the importation of split-run editions of foreign-published magazines in 1965. These actions, as it seem to me, are strictly economical and financial rather than a result of cultural concern. I feel like the Canadian magazine dispute was not motivated by the claimed genuine desires of protecting Canadian culture.

The fact that only eleven ...

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... have their magazines considered domestic. They did enforce the taxes in such a way that the foreign publishers only have to pay the taxes, but this is unjust as well.

This dispute about Canadian magazines doesn’t stop short, but in fact it created disputes on Canadian trade. Since the Canadian economy decided to place taxes on foreign content, magazine publishers would have to produce magazines that contains at least eighty percent Canadian content. I think the idea of placing taxes is wrong in the first place and American magazine producers also placed charges based on the taxes. They voted the imposed taxes on foreign producers is a measure of discriminatory practice. This dispute had begun with the notion of the desire to conserve Canadian culture but it escalated to the point of creating an enormously encompassing trade war between the two countries.

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