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From: chapman@fornax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Free trade, Canadian culture, $$
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Date: Fri, 20-Feb-87 01:30:30 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 20 01:30:30 1987
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> In article <183@fornax.uucp> chapman@fornax.uucp (John Chapman) writes:
> >You could sure make a lot of high quality, feature length, commercially
> >successful films in Canada with part of that $1.2Billion.
> >
> Not if the government has any involvement in it. Considering what the
> CBC does with its nearly 1 billion dollars I wouldn't hold my breath in
> any theatre lineup waiting for these movies.
> 
>   Donald Acton

I must be missing something here. What does having Canadian owned (and
therefore controlled) distributors for movies have to do with the CBC
or any crown corporation? Nothing like that was even hinted at either
in my posting or in the Sun editorial.

However if you want to bitch about the CBC......
While I think it could be improved I certainly think it is worthwhile
for the money.  It does provide a sense of cultural identity.  When
I lived in a little town in Ontario I could hear the same Cross Country
Checkup that I heard in Vancouver and it really helped make it all seem
like one country.  Canada has 10% of the US population; does the CBC
cost more to run than 10% of what it costs to run one of {NBC,ABC,CBS}?

 john