Underfunding of the Arts and Cultural Assimilation

Via TV Eh?, an excellent article from the Halifax Daily News on underfunding in the Canadian arts and cultural assimilation:

Because there is an element of the preservation of the culture which does not exist in the rest of the country. Quebec sees its culture as being under threat - all the time - from the rest of English Canada and consequently gives a lot of time and attention and spends a lot of money to preserving that culture. A culture it sees as under threat.

The sad fact is that we are under as much threat from America, because 90 per cent of what we see on our television sets and in our movie theatres here in Canada is American product.