Juno News - Ottawa’s crackdown on independent media just got worse

00:00:00.000 Like you get government involved with this of guess what?

00:00:02.680 We're going to have a bunch of bureaucrats in Ottawa and Gatineau decide what is and is not Canadian content.

00:00:07.500 Oh, that'll go good. This won't be a problem.

00:00:10.000 And so now what's happening with your show, and I imagine with a whole bunch of other producers who are on places like YouTube,

00:00:16.100 it's almost like you're hitting the walls of a glass jar, right?

00:00:19.520 And you're kind of staying inside that jar.

00:00:21.440 I just wanted to point out it isn't just you speaking to camera, which is still good, but you're doing big interviews, right?

00:00:28.200 like you're talking to newsmakers and big players in Canada. Yeah. And it's totally silenced. It's

00:00:35.660 and it is. And again, I'm following it in my analytics. And this is something that I've

00:00:40.120 studied a lot that I've had my my spidey senses tingling on ever since it was first introduced.

00:00:45.780 And it is such a disservice. It truly is. And I think the best way that I could summarize it as

00:00:52.680 well, is the forced outcome of discoverability for those approved pieces of content that are

00:01:01.060 somehow promoting Canadian. Again, I don't get it. But the fact that you will have something where

00:01:10.560 every single analytic shows that the audience absolutely loves this, you know, and yet it still

00:01:18.960 gets for lack of better words killed yeah but and nobody's allowed to see it even though if you were

00:01:25.340 in any other country that would have been viral um and that's really frustrating to deal with

00:01:32.620 though i am doing a social experiment very soon and i will be traveling to the states i live very

00:01:37.200 close to the border and i'm going to be publishing my show for a couple of weeks from a nice little

00:01:42.620 airbnb i've rented out there just so that i can actually compare the analytical data and have

00:01:48.580 much more solid ground on how much c11 is not only blocking me from from reaching canadians

00:01:56.020 but it's also blocking me from reaching a global audience as well which used to be easy you used to

00:02:01.380 very easily be able to uh to break into the ether and so at the end of the day i think all of this

00:02:06.740 stuff truly it is meant to promote canadian content but what it's actually doing is it's

00:02:11.700 isolating canadian content so much so like you are actually shutting off the taps for canadian

00:02:17.620 voices to make it on a large scale so if you want to if you want to promote canada the best way to

00:02:23.220 do that is probably not to have algorithms manipulated so that your content is only being

00:02:28.260 shown in canada and not anywhere else in the world like you are literally isolating your

00:02:33.460 entire country and content creators of all stripes it doesn't matter what you do either obviously

00:02:37.700 there's some categories that are more protected but you could have a cooking channel and because

00:02:42.660 you don't count as being Canadian, well, you're not going to be seen as often.

Juno News - May 26, 2026