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Canada Identity

Canada Identity . Essential Questions. In what ways has Canada created a more distinctive Canadian Identity?. Vocabulary: CBC NFB CRTC Massey Report. Massey commission & Report. The Massey Commission set out to investigate the effect of foreign influence on Canada’s culture.

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Canada Identity

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  1. Canada Identity

  2. Essential Questions In what ways has Canada created a more distinctive Canadian Identity? Vocabulary: CBC NFB CRTC Massey Report

  3. Massey commission & Report • The Massey Commission set out to investigate the effect of foreign influence on Canada’s culture. • The Report was issued in1951: It advocated that the federal government give support and provide aid to a wide range of cultural activities. • Advocacy of the spending of public funds for artistic endeavours was not seen favourably at the time.

  4. Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission - The CRTCs goal is to regulate content in Canadian broadcast media. • Quota system: That a certain percentage of all content broadcast on the airwaves must be Canadian in origin. Canadian Heritage Minutes: created to meet Canadian content standards

  5. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation/ Radio Canada • CBC is Canada's oldest existing broadcasting network: produces and distributes distinctive Canadian content • In the 1920s, a Canadian broadcasting service was establish to counter American culture. • CBC/Radio-Canada’s total government funding is aroundone billion dollars a year

  6. National Film Board of Canada (NFB) • An agency of the Government of Canada • Produces and distributes documentaries, animation, alternative drama and digital mediaproductions (Don’t need to write this ↓) One if its main goals: - create programming reflecting Canada's linguistic duality and multiculturalism in Canada.

  7. Canada and us have taken different stances on issuesMilitary • In recent years Can/US have different in how North America should be defended. In 2011: • USA 750 billion/year • Canada 14 Billion/year (down 25% from cold war era) Can we think of anymore?

  8. Activity Individual SLAM or I AM CANADIAN Poem • Guiding Questions: • How has Canada's relationship with US and/or Britain influenced its identity? • In what ways has Canada gained its independence? • What programs or policies have helped Canada maintain its identity? • What does “being Canadian” mean to you?

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