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I’m here listening to Sheila Copps. I’m kinda suprised that she’s here, but I’m happy about it. Her presentation isn’t about what I do, but she’s really down-to-earth and straightforward.

Right away she politely slammed Cracin for being so unilingual. Nor for philosophical reason’s but because it was not politically strategic. Being completely anglo makes it difficult to ally with important Quebec entities that are great at fighting cultural diversity battles.

. . . listening . . . kinda stunned.

This is a crazy session! 1) she is all about the “content is king” model as opposed to the idea that communication is king. 2) She said (and later defended) the idea that free content is not very good. That the only creators that matter are people that are selling content (but that fits in with her political work -she helped put the tax on blank cd’s). 3) That government won’t respond to “the public interest” but only to interest groups. So that if Cracin wants to get stuff done they should figure out which interest groups are going to be effective allies. And that traditional enemies (like copyright groups) are not possible allies because of the changes in content and telecom realities.

*great* session. I’m really glad that they invited her and that she came. I completely disagree with her about the internet (she seems to see it as a distribution network, not as a communication network) but I love her realistic advice to this group.

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