Canada deleted their Youtube channel with 3,000+ digitally restored works of Canadian Content, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35716982
From the only article I could find in english [0]:
> The law can make listening to the radio an adventure in dizzying contrasts. One minute a disc jockey is playing American rap, and the next minute it’s flutes and fiddles from the Andean highlands.
It pushed some local artist to get creative and come out with some electronic traditional music, which frakly, sucked.
Oh, and radio stations worked around the required quota by playing the mandated music very late at night.
You gotta start somewhere. I lived through a similar transition in a different country, I hated the law at the time for the same reasons. However, it lit a fire under the local music industry which now supports more artistes than before. The music now sucks much less, and the local subgenres are unique and wouldn't otherwise exist.
This was how France rebuilt its national cinema. Quotas work.
Such a strange concept. People like songs from "Region A" but we in "Region B" and want people to like songs from our own region. We do this by restricting access to "Region A"'s songs, not by making better songs in "Region B".
There is a similar system for film/TV where having a Canadian director, lead actors, writers,etc gets a certain amount of points and so on.
According to the government, Justing Bieber signing about “Georgia Peaches” and consuming drugs in California counts as Canadian Music and Culture (he was born in Canada). It's interesting to consider Justin Bieber's houses right here in California were purchased in part with Canadian government subsidies [0].
[0] https://www.velvetropes.com/backstage/justin-bieber-house
Musician Bryan Adams has been a vocal opponent of CanCon rules since the 1990s, and it’s largely due to the fact that the federal government keeps ruling that his songs aren’t actually Canadian.
https://nationalpost.com/news/extremely-canadian-media-that-...