Rose's Cantina

#145062127 / gettyimages.com I don't usually watch the CRTC hearings. I don't think I'm alone in this. But I was riveted by them on Friday, when the captains of Canadian culture started grilling Netflix's director of global public policy, challenging her to open the corporate books, while suggesting that Netflix should pay, essentially, a Canadian culture tax. Most of the media took to Twitter to share their embarrassment over how the CRTC commissioners conducted themselves. You'd think they were starring in a Canadian roll your own, like the Heritage Minutes, carrying muskets to fight a phantom war against technology. We didn't ask the CRTC to do this. Canadians are grownups; we don't need a cultural crossing guard. Justin Trudeau was right the other day. Old men belong in gentlemen's clubs, smoking cigars. They are not needed to be the guardians of taste, or biology. It's our party and Canadians should be able to choose w...

Seriously? You wouldn't see this if you were there in person!! Update, update!!! Helene Campbell just called the Heritage Minister Michael Moore instead of James Moore. She must not be a Tory. 1:16 p.m. Well, not a bad show. Metric, Terry Clark, that weird French girl with the cameltoe, but now, the moment we've been waiting for. Ladies and gentlemen, Commander Chris Hadfield! He sort of looks like a Hill janitor in that jumpsuit. Hey Chris...the Seventies are calling. They want their moustache back! How did you like the show, Gord? Meh. Meanwhile, my son Nick and his friend Jess took Skylar and Ava to the Museum of Science and Technology, which is free like all the other museums today!