Unpredictable. Unfocused. Just like life.

Michael Geist notes that the Canadian broadcast community wants more control of media on the internet:

The issue began to percolate last June, when Canadian Heritage Minister Bev Oda asked the CRTC to conduct a six-month consultation on the effects of changing technology on the radio and television industries. The CRTC report, which was quietly released in mid-December, went almost unnoticed, yet submissions from broadcasters, copyright collectives, and labour unions all point to an increased regulatory role for the CRTC.

The underlying theme of many stakeholder submissions is that unregulated new media represents a threat to the current regulated Canadian content model.

The free market often falls victim to government control in Canada, and broadcasting is an example. Specific percentages of "Canadian content" are mandated by law because this is necessary to protect Canadian culture; to allow people to tell "Canadian stories".

Strangely it never seems to matter what Canadians actually want to watch. And other than hockey, that seems to mostly be American reality shows.