A recent online survey by the Angus Reid Institute found that three-quarters of Canadians think there is a unique Canadian culture and it’s “something special.” And they believe it needs government protection to thrive.
So, let me ask you, which do you feel is more worthy of protection: reruns of Corner Gas on Saturday afternoons on CTV or new episodes of the Vancouver cop show Motive on Sunday nights on the same network?
Unsure? Me too, which is why I am not working for the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. The CRTC has decided that what we want to protect is quality not quantity. In a Thursday decision, the latest from its 2014 Let’s Talk TV hearings, the regulator killed Canadian content quotas for daytime TV but maintained them in prime time.
Kate Taylor – Globe and Mail – March 12, 2015
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