Comments on: Why do we need a YouTube Canada?

By: fred

fred — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:44:04 +0000

you smell

By: Shefaly

Shefaly — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 10:44:28 +0000

Why?

For the same reason (s, if applicable) as Kylie (uh-huh Minogue) thinks the world needs a social networking site called KylieConnect.

By: Nav

Nav — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 02:57:04 +0000

No, that’s a really good point Mathew. You’d never see an American Youtube portal right? There is a sense that moves like this are always going to be secondary to the (American) mainstage. Perhaps that kind of segregation will undercut the capacity for online content to ’succeed’ regardless of where it’s from (God, I sound like such a liberal humanist all of a sudden!).

By: Joe Duck

Joe Duck — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:22:33 +0000

Matt I was just being annoying. Don’t get me wrong here because I really love Montreal and Quebec and the French language and my northern friends, but I think the YouTube.ca – Quebec version would probably need an R rating, show a great deal of indifference to other Canadians, shoot off fireworks and drive … umm… too fast. Nevertheless, Vive le Quebec libre!?

By: Mathew

Mathew — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:18:23 +0000

That’s a good point, Nav. And don’t get me wrong — I think Canada is great, and I am all in favour of Canadian artists and content creators getting all the recognition they can get from wherever they can get it. But I still don’t get the YouTube thing somehow — maybe it just feels like sitting at the kids’ table :-)

And Joe, your point is a good one as well. Where’s the Quebecois version?