Has Canada joined the Eurovision Song Contest? Experts say the audience needs it – nationally
It is an international competition that brings An invitation to its audience and allow its participants rise like a phoenix, And it is possible that the Eurovision Song Contest Contest will soon include Canada in its ranks.
It wasn’t a big-ticket item, but the Liberal government’s 2025 budget included a line on the CBC saying it was working with the public broadcaster to explore participation in the popular song contest.
Eurovision has been around since 1956 and is organized every year by the European Broadcasting Union. It includes acts from many countries in Europe, but also a few from abroad, such as Australia.
The Campy-style competition is sometimes called the Europe Bowl, with hundreds of millions of viewers around the world.
“We want Canadian culture on the world stage,” Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday. “The best culture in the world, the best music in the world, I think Europe deserves to see it too.”
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Canadians have competed in the competition in the past, with Celine Dion winning Switzerland in 1988. In the same year, Lara Fabian, who became a Canadian citizen in 1995, was represented in fourth place.
LA ZARRA, born in Montreal, representing France in the 2023 tournament came 16th with his performance To deliver.
Carney has been doing international outreach in recent months as Canada looks for like-minded partners amid a trade war with the US
Dean Vutetic, the selish expert of the Eurovision Song Contest, told the world news that he was not surprised that the Canadian budget included a row about the contest. He pointed out that joining the competition has been discussed by Canada since Australia joined in 2015.
“Canada is a country close to Europe, culturally and politically, especially the countries of the European Union,” said the self-harming. “We are talking about the members of the EU which are the core of Eurovision and they are the ones that Canada is looking to develop closer ties in view of the current situation in the world.
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“I also think that this is a way for Canada to strengthen its connection with the European Union, even if Eurovision is officially connected to the European Union, that it shares the values of the European Union.”
Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne told the world’s media Europe in that view.
“This was something that was asked by the people who participated and I think it’s a platform for Canada to Shine,” Champagne said on Tuesday.
Joining Eurovision was considered before by CBC / Radio-Canada in the past but it was determined to be very expensive.
There have been plans to open a televised singing competition in Canada that could send a winner to Eurovision, similar to how competing countries choose their entries.
Lindsay Cox, Chief Content Officer at Insight’s Toronto-based provider, told The Canada Press that their initial plans for an English-only program stuck instead of a “bilingual controlled show.”
Since the budget announcement, CoX said “ongoing discussions” have been taking place with the CBC, but did not provide more details.
The big question, according to Eurovision Expery Karen Fricker – If Canada enters the contest – is there enough desire to watch?
“It’s a lot of fun to watch, but would there be any interest in it?” Brain dead, established professor of dramatic arts at Brock University in Niagara.
Fricker told the world news The competition is very popular in the various communities of Diastrants and Diansoc, and others who tear their incidents in their country and, watch the competition.
In addition, youth culture has entered the competition during the covid-19 pandemic, and some in the LGBTQ2s community have called it the “Olympic winner” – the winner of the 2024 competition, the winner, the winner of the 2025 competition, identifying as quer.
Fricker noted that Australia’s decision could be borrowed from Canada as well.
“This decision was made because Australia is a country of immigrants, as is the case in Canada, in addition to having the first people, they really have, they really build the following in Australia,” said Fricker. “So when Australia got the chance to compete, it made a lot of sense because there was a lot of excitement in the community. Here (in Canada,) what needs to be built,
–With files from Global News’ Touria Izri and The Canadian Press
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