The Globe and Mail reports in its Saturday edition that on Sunday, millions of Canadians
will sit down to watch
the Super Bowl and complain
about American ads being
replaced by Canadian ads from the likes of Canadian Tire and Tim Hortons.
The Globe's guest columnist Peter Miller writes that if a Canadian Radio-television
and Telecommunications
Commission decision withstands
a recent court challenge, this will
be the last time Canadians will have to
watch those home-grown ads.
The game's Canadian
rights are owned by Bell Media.
The show will air on CTV and
RDS.
Last year the
CRTC ruled that Bell's right to
replace United States ads with Canadian
ones on this particular show will
cease in 2017. No other shows are
affected. The basis for the decision
is that nearly 100 of the nine
million Canadian viewers complained
about the practice.
The National Football
League has intervened in Canadian
courts to support Bell's right to
replace U.S. ads with Canadian
ones to maximize ad revenue.
The CRTC's mandate is to "safeguard,
enrich and strengthen the
cultural, political, social and economic
fabric of Canada," and yet
it proposes, on the basis of a few
complaints, to do the opposite.
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