[Mitchell]

Ping.

This is Canada, not Iran or China.

[JoeFromSidney]

this explains why, even though I could receive Sirius satellite radio broadcasts on my car receiver in Canada, Sirius is not actually allowed to sell subscriptions there.

[dinok]

Back in 1967 when my family lived under the Greek dictatorship, my father used to listen to foreign news at the penalty of arrest and disappearance in to the political prison camps.

Lets face it...this is to stop the Canadian people from listening to Conservative American News.

No FOX for you...The TV Nazis.

[Bogey78O]

Canada needs to protect it's rackets.

[FormerACLUmember]

Maximum fines of $10,000 and six months in prison to $25,000 and a year in prison.

Recognize what these truly evil people and tyrants are doing: massive oppression of the free flow of ideas and free speech of the Canadian people by their socialist rulers.

No wonder Hillary and her rat party worships Canada.

[GeronL]

Well, this will help them make sure no anti-gay, anti-french or pro-christian views make it into TV.

[Persephone Kore]

"... would increase penalties on individuals from maximum fines of $10,000 and six months in prison to $25,000 and a year in prison."

a year in prison.
for spending your money to watch foreign-made tv shows.

this is the true face of protectionism.

take care what you ask for in life. you might get it.

[68skylark]

Suppose I get a Canadian TV dish and install it at my house in Indiana. Does anyone know what penalties I'd face from the U.S.? Probably nothing, I'm guessing.

[gcruse]

We have our War on Drugs, they have their War on Information. Before Americans sneer at Canadian oppression, acknowledging our own is in order. Getting rid of both travesties is a worthy goal for both.

[July 4th]

I do the reverse with Canadian satellite television. There's actually some good stuff on their DBS systems, and I have an ExpressVU 18" dish set up in Wisconsin. You subscribe through a third party provider who gives you an address in Canada. Just don't buy any pay-per-view, or your receiver tries to dial the provider. I'm assuming the Canadian government has a serious issue with Canadians who are doing exactly the same thing I am, only with DirecTV.

[July 4th]

those who pay U.S. providers for channels the Canadian industry isn't willing to offer.

As I understand it, this is only half of the issue. There is simply some programming that the government doesn't allow providers to offer.

[upcountryhorseman]

Canadians have only themseves to blame; The fruits of socialism, loss of freedom. Are we next?

[gatorgriz]

Pull the handle; you do it every day... The flush you hear is the sound of Canada going down the toilet. They’ve worked hard to be the last floater in the bowl, the toilet bowl that is; so you may have to flush twice.

I love Canada… Or at least I used to love Canada. I can easily drive from my home to Calgary in less than five hours; and I can’t begin to tell you how many times I’ve vacationed in the Canadian Rockies… But no more… Haven’t been back in over five years now and I don’t intend going anytime soon either.

Canada is a very much polarized country; even more than we are. Western Canadians are a lot like us, they’re simply outnumbered by the elite in Ontario and especially in Quebec…

The fact of the matter is they can’t gas their tank…

That’s a pity; no, it’s a national disgrace…

[Snuffington]

Critics of the legislation say the bill makes no distinction between people who take Canadian satellite signals without paying and those who pay U.S. providers for channels the Canadian industry isn't willing to offer.

Good lord. Canada is becoming positively totalitarian in structure. That's going to be a mighty long Berlin wall, eh?