I think you're right, Jennifer.

Canadian networks have always made a lot of money by buying US TV shows and then simulcasting. They substitute Canadian commercials. A Canadian TV license used to be referred to as a license to print money. It was. The cost of Canadian content was just a cost of doing business - nothing more.

The internet might be changing things. These broadcasters never learned how to make shows that people want to watch, with a few great exceptions that prove the rule. And if CBC were well funded and if the overseers were people with vision and courage then the CBC might be an amazing exception. Meanwhile, if the internet puts the rest of them out of business I won't be sad.

Canadian film distributors have a similar history.

Okay. Why is Canadian music good and successful?!! Is there a model there we could learn from?