Question 11.
How do you feel that communications law and policy contribute to safeguarding The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, individual privacy, free speech, and a democratic society? What modifications, if any, would you make to communications law and policy?
100 words

In the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom applies to policies and legislation of federal government and guarantees freedoms and rights similar to the rights found within the charter. In this case, the laws include legal rights, equality rights, freedom of association and freedom of speech. Therefore the communication policy and law protect the freedom of each person regardless of their ethnicity. For example, the intelligence-led policing help improve intelligence and information sharing. For example, LEO (Law Enforcement Online) and CALEA (Communication Assistant for Law Enforcement Act) in the United States help control the communication department thus preventing crimes like eavesdropping (Edwards, 2012).

Question 13.
How much private enterprise and/or free-market economics should be applicable to mass communication? Please locate yourself within one of the viewpoints (i.e. economistic, culturalist etc.) when expressing your opinion.
100 words

The major hardships which threaten the division of Canadian mass media include the outcome relates to American cultural and economic imperialism. In this case, Canada still faces difficulties in identifying itself to the media.

Question 15.
Compare and contrast the Canadian context for journalists with the European and American contexts. Please reference Canadian Law in your response.

European journalists entail broader libel definition than the journalists in the United States and Canada. The united states journalists feel that the democratic press has no right to report the results of exit polls while the voting has not ended whereas in western countries like Europe the decision to vote or not depends with them. Moreover, Canadian journalist use social and their tools embedded on their knowledge and professional practice whereas European journalists have positive views about social media impacts. Moreover, the American journalists incorporate more detailed and less speculative information in the media for example the New York Times as compared to the European and Canadian journalists.

 

References

Edwards, J. B. (2012). Police Practice. FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, 81(6), 19.