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Canadian Argument

• Canada does have more choice among services
• Highest level of cable, cell, Internet penetration in G-8
• Chronic shortage/ market failure in high cost production
• Shrinking public investment in non commercial or community media
• Indicators News
• More news services, fewer private foreign news bureaus, more reliance on wire services; diminishing number of jobs
• Indicator Entertainment
• Digital channels not allied with big Canadian companies on verge of bankruptcy
• Can’t get carried by cable companies, or carried at too high a wholesale rate
• Services high level of repetition( estimated more than 66% reruns)
• Lag of asymmetry: late on video file swapping, speed of video downloads