Chris Berube

It could be a Sloan song on an alt-rock radio station, or someone playing a Gordon Lightfoot cover at your local cafe's open mic night.

Maybe it's a wolf parade song that made you and your roommate tear up while watching a TV show.

Canadian music will still exist without the CanCon system to spotlight it.

It just might be a little harder to find.

But music that's good enough to move us and that earns a place in our lives once we find it, it deserves to be supported.

When we come back, Max Collins and I, we are going to nerd out about some more CanCon stuff.

You do not want to miss it.

Right after this.

Hey, Max.

Hello.

I am very ready to give you some more riveting cultural policy history from Canada.

Well, I am born ready for this.

So what do you have for us?

We spent a lot of time talking about Canadian content laws for music, but we didn't talk at all about CanCon laws in Canada's other creative industries.

So let's talk a little bit about TV.

Yes, absolutely, because TV in Canada is also subject to content laws, right?

Yeah, that's true.

So Canadian broadcast TV also has a content quota.

If they want to keep their licenses, half of the content between 6 p.m.

and 11 p.m.