Canada Moves to Protect Magazine Industry

The Canadian government announced plans to prohibit foreign publications from selling ad space to Canadian advertisers in a bid to protect Canadian magazines from U.S. competition. It is intended to ensure that funds spent by Canadian companies on magazine advertising goes to Canadian publications, not to American and other foreign magazines that offer cheap rates in Canadian editions. Advertising industry groups are critical of the plan and have urged the government to seek a Supreme Court opinion on whether the ban would be constitutional.