?There can be no political sovereignty without culture
sovereignty.? So argued the CBC in 1985 in its evidence to the
Caplan/Sauvageau Task Force on Broadcasting Policy. Richard Collins
challenges this assumption. He argues in this study of nationalism
and Canadian television policy that Canada's political sovereignty
depends much less on Canadian content in television than has
generally been accepted. His analysis focuses on television drama,
at the centre of television policy in the 1980s.
Collins questions the conventional image of Canada as a weak
national entity undermined by its population's predilection for
foreign television. Rather, he argues, Canada is held together, not
by a shared repertoire of symbols, a national culture, but by other
social forces, notably political institutions.
Collins maintains that important advantages actually and
potentially flow from Canada's wear national symbolic culture.
Rethinking the relationships between television and society in
Canada may yield a more successful broadcasting policy, more
popular television programming, and a better understanding of the
links between culture and the body politic.
As the European Community moves closer to political unity, the
Canadian case may become more relevant to Europe, which, Collins
suggests, already fears the ?Canadianization? of its television. He
maintains that a European multilingual society, without a shared
culture or common European audio-visual sphere and with viewers
watching foreign television, can survive successfully as a
political entity ? just as Canada has.
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