I am baffled as to why anyone from Canada should care about the London
bombings: UK's cultural broadcasting to Canada.

1. BBC World Service has totally abandoned transmissions to Canada, calling
into question the nature and structure of the existing "Commonwealth"
relationship with the UK.

2. There has been no UK encouragement for Canada to increase its
international broadcasting budget (via RCI), so as to allow RCI to
effectively become a 2nd "World Service" as it was during the 1950s and
1960s.

3. The UK has failed to persuade US TV broadcasting entities to abandon or
change the way they broadcast to Canada

[US News and Information broadcasters that should "localise" to Canada]
-- CNN
-- MSNBC
-- Fox News (replaced with Sky News, Sky Fox Canada?)
etc ...

4. The UK has failed to encourage Australia & NZ to increase their (TV & SW)
transmissions to Canada, a vital part of the "Commonwealth" glue.

5. Nor has the UK encouraged Australia (specifically) to increase its
external broadcaster Radio Australia into a "3rd" regional axis (*) of
commonwealth broadcasting.


(*) It is important for Commonwealth as a whole to have a somewhat unified
multilateral cultural broadcasting effort -- not only for the security of
the individual members, but for the security of the Commonwealth as a whole.

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A class action lawsuit is 45 years overdue
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The BBC World Service has never broadcast in Welsh to the Americas, save
Patagonia (1946) -- in spite of the US & Canada having the most speakers of
Welsh outside the UK. The change in broadcasting costs would be about nil.