Resumen
El presente artículo analiza las políticas culturales canadienses sobre la inversión extranjera en la industria editorial en lengua inglesa. Se concentra especialmente en el estudio de la Foreign Investment Review Act (FIRA) y la Investment Canada Act (ICA). Argumenta la existencia de una paradoja que enfrenta la protección gubernamental, representada por subsidios y programas de financiamiento a la edición, con la liberalización comercial que ha beneficiado a las editoriales transnacionales. Derivado de la información recopilada por la Association of Canadian Publishers (ACP), datos gubernamentales de Statistics Canada y la opinión de figuras públicas vinculadas a la industria del libro, se observa una ineficiencia en la aplicación de las políticas que ha permitido a editoriales extranjeras adquirir empresas canadienses y controlar la mayoría del mercado del libro en Canadá.
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