So much attempt to look forward without reconciling with and fixing past mistakes. There are so many levels where Truth and Reconciliation processes are required.
As much as Canadian Institutions want to claim that TRC around Indigenous peoples has happened, that process hadn’t actually started as Canada hasn’t begun the “truth” part.
I spent 10+ years on the "Digital Copyright" policy trying to warn policy makers that it was a bad idea to protect digital communications platforms from competition -- which is the REAL meaning of "technological protection measures" as opposed to the myth that copyrighted content could come alive and "protect itself" (Harry Potter: Monster book of Monsters -- is fiction, not fact). The growth of the power of online media platforms, including social media platforms, really grew out of those policy mistakes.
Clarity that automated processes (whether security cameras or LLM’s) cannot result in exclusive rights such as copyright should have been put in place early in the 1990s, rather than following the USA’s corrupt National Information Infrastructure (NII) process – which for instance lead to the NII Copyright Protection Act of 1995. (which was policy-laundered through WIPO, and then later passed into Canadian law)
Most of the problems I see Canada's institutions facing today are self-inflicted, even though politicians want to continue to point elsewhere as the source.
I was looking through recent Hansard records and seeing exactly what you mean about self-inflicted wounds. MPs spent over 40 hours in committee last month blaming big tech for our media crisis. They completely ignore how our own early copyright policies helped build those monopolies. A recent parliamentary report ignored these foundational mistakes entirely. It is incredibly frustrating. Politicians treat this like a sudden foreign invasion instead of the direct result of bad domestic policy. We really need to review those old Orders in Council (binding cabinet decisions) before passing new laws.
In my experience, this is not unique to politicians but a problem with individualism within the dominant culture. Extremely short time periods (business quarters, election cycles, etc) are considered during policy debates. Most of the required context for any policy debate is beyond the timeframe of a human lifespan.
Contrast that with the 7 Generations principle common within many domestic (Indigenous) worldviews.
The fact that you are looking deeply at documents both recent and further back in time seems to suggest you exist outside of stereotypical Canadian culture.
Each time I hear the high speed rail debacle as being a "nation building project", it always makes me chuckle. Clearly to the Laurentian Elites, the country runs from Quebec City to Toronto. Anything outside that bubble exists only to pay the bills.
So much attempt to look forward without reconciling with and fixing past mistakes. There are so many levels where Truth and Reconciliation processes are required.
As much as Canadian Institutions want to claim that TRC around Indigenous peoples has happened, that process hadn’t actually started as Canada hasn’t begun the “truth” part.
I spent 10+ years on the "Digital Copyright" policy trying to warn policy makers that it was a bad idea to protect digital communications platforms from competition -- which is the REAL meaning of "technological protection measures" as opposed to the myth that copyrighted content could come alive and "protect itself" (Harry Potter: Monster book of Monsters -- is fiction, not fact). The growth of the power of online media platforms, including social media platforms, really grew out of those policy mistakes.
Clarity that automated processes (whether security cameras or LLM’s) cannot result in exclusive rights such as copyright should have been put in place early in the 1990s, rather than following the USA’s corrupt National Information Infrastructure (NII) process – which for instance lead to the NII Copyright Protection Act of 1995. (which was policy-laundered through WIPO, and then later passed into Canadian law)
Most of the problems I see Canada's institutions facing today are self-inflicted, even though politicians want to continue to point elsewhere as the source.
I was looking through recent Hansard records and seeing exactly what you mean about self-inflicted wounds. MPs spent over 40 hours in committee last month blaming big tech for our media crisis. They completely ignore how our own early copyright policies helped build those monopolies. A recent parliamentary report ignored these foundational mistakes entirely. It is incredibly frustrating. Politicians treat this like a sudden foreign invasion instead of the direct result of bad domestic policy. We really need to review those old Orders in Council (binding cabinet decisions) before passing new laws.
In my experience, this is not unique to politicians but a problem with individualism within the dominant culture. Extremely short time periods (business quarters, election cycles, etc) are considered during policy debates. Most of the required context for any policy debate is beyond the timeframe of a human lifespan.
Contrast that with the 7 Generations principle common within many domestic (Indigenous) worldviews.
The fact that you are looking deeply at documents both recent and further back in time seems to suggest you exist outside of stereotypical Canadian culture.
"They are desperately trying to build a cohesive national strategy out of millions of disparate, highly technical fragments."
Each time I hear the high speed rail debacle as being a "nation building project", it always makes me chuckle. Clearly to the Laurentian Elites, the country runs from Quebec City to Toronto. Anything outside that bubble exists only to pay the bills.