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The Sleepy Gardeners
The Trudeau Years
From: The Tangled Garden
$2.60
Canadian policy regarding media and cultural industries in the Trudeau’s government first term (2015 to 2019). How giant American media corporations – Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google – successfully lobbied for friendly policies from the Canadian government and quickly came to dominate Canada’s media advertising market. Discusses how Canada’s laid-back approach differs from measures other countries have taken to protect their domestic media and cultural industries.
Contributors
Richard Stursberg
Richard Stursberg is a leading expert on Canadian media and culture, and an experienced cultural executive. He has served as Assistant Deputy Minister of Culture and Broadcasting in the federal government, president of the Canadian Cable Television Association, President of Starchoice and Cancom, chairman of the Canadian Television Fund, executive director of Telefilm Canada, and head of English language services at the CBC. He has been a board member of the Canadian Film Centre and the Banff Television Festival. His book on his experience at the CBC, The Tower of Babble, was named one of the best books of 2012 by the Globe and Mail. He currently advises various Canadian media companies and sits on the boards of Hollywood Suite and Digital Media at the Crossroads. He lectures at the Ryerson/York graduate program on media policy and is the President of PEN Canada. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.
