Québecor inc. and Québecor Media are also among those companies.
Which pretty much means that the only two infrastructure-owning ISPs in Québec are in on it.
Bell essentially owns all DSL and fiber, while Vidéotron (owned by Québecor inc.) owns the Cable infrastructure.
At least the CEO of Québecor isn’t also the leader of the opposition party anymore.
There was a chance at some point for the prime minister of the province to also be the heir of the largest media empire in the eastern half of Canada AND owner of one of the two largest ISPs. So much for the separation of Media and State.
CBC/Radio Canada is also on that list. So this is also supported by publicly-funded organisations.
The major content producers, for both official languages are also supporting this. That’s a majority support from the local media industry and the cultural content creators.
It’s a bit ridiculous. It was already almost impossible to torrent legally-available french-canadian content, because a lot of pirates understandably refuse to upload it for protectionist reasons, i.e. “support your cultural content creators”. Also because an extremely small amount of the potential consumers for that content would even look to pirate it anyway instead of getting it in higher quality through official channels, except for the stuff that isn’t available anywhere else anymore.
The website Torrent 411 was single-handedly responsible for upholding the digital accessibility of historically-important classics of Québec television and cinema. The main other ways to access that content involved going in person to a library, university or CÉGEP to borrow a physical copy.
Some things are preserved by the ONF on their website, but not all of it is available. You’re not going to be able to watch Dans Une Galaxie Près de Chez-vous there. (Ok, that series has been uploaded to youtube by a fan, but that could always disappear at the drop of a hat.)
And many of the culturally-influential films that had even a hint of anti-federation connotation aren’t going to be perpetually preserved by the federal archives if there continues to be popular pressure to remove content that doesn’t agree with the modern notion of a unifying Canadian History, where the facts of colonialisms and cultural genocides are “omitted” to make people feel better about themselves and ignore the sources of current issues.