Of course, Canada Day reminds me of how utterly disturbing this continent can be. For whatever reason, I can watch TV programming from the United States of America, for free, at any time. Any time that I am near a TV that uses an antenna – such as my father’s home, where they live in a rural area of Ontario, but are relatively surrounded by Buffalo, Erie, Clevland, Toledo, Detroit. Of course, that means that CRTC rules are not followed (although, by many accounts, CRTC has almost completely destroyed the Canadian Broadcasting industry and we are losing a number of Global, CTV affiliates this year alone) and US of A advertising is presented, and no Canadian content is made available when the signal is received in this way.

Hulu is a perfect example of how much bull is put in place to make sure that some sort of ridiculous “law” – or more likely, someone simply isn’t getting their revenue stream – so Canadians can’t get Hulu.

No Hulu for Yu

Of course, Canadian GAP’ers already are familiar with this.

What I didn’t know, however, is that as a Canadian, I can go watch things like Canada’s Worst Driver, or Canada’s Worst Handyman – streaming online at Discovery Canada … but if you are in the US of A, you can’t stream this stuff. So, yes, it works both ways. One thing I do not understand, of course, is when Canadian content is webcast, even if it is coming from the US of A, why can’t we see it?

The general populous is ok with this exchange. I have friends all over, and that includes in the United States of America. But, on the global scale, it appears we have a very long way to go.