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Yes. I think the most accurate way to look at this is as a trade barrier to protect a local industry. By mandating a certain percentage of Canadian content, the

• cmrdporcupine 3y ago
  It's that and more as I said elsewhere. I think there are legitimate minority cultural interests, and the need to preserve some nominal Canadian identities that are actually real concerns. The problem in Canada is that there are ... cabals ... of interests that have spent the last 200 years using the somewhat-artifically (but in large part necessary) erected walls between us and the United States for their own very self-serving interests that actually harm their fellow Canadians. Telecoms pricing being the obvious example. In any case, it infects both major political parties, goes across the whole spectrum, and is a feature of the Canadian state since at least before the American Revolution.