The Cartt.ca Podcast: "They're feckless," Richard Stursberg says of our government, which must instead act now to defend Cancon

By Bill Roberts

THERE’S NOT MUCH TIME left to save our cultural institutions and corporations in Canada, says Richard Stursberg.If our federal government doesn’t act soon, what it means to be Canadian will be subsumed by the sheer volume of American culture washing over us online while our “feckless” Canadian government stands idly by. “We’re going to be completely dominated by American content,” he says.The former assistant deputy minister of culture and broadcasting and former CBC, Shaw, and Telefilm executive, recently released a brand new book, called The Tangled Garden. A Canadian Cultural Manifesto for the Digital Age, which is a soup to nuts...