Chris Berube

If you ask me, like, it doesn't feel like it's in the same spirit as, like, CanCon quotas on the radio.

It's not really supporting, like, innovation in Canada.

That brings us back to the question of, like, how do we actually support arts made in Canada?

Okay.

And do you have an answer for this, Max?

What is your big solution to all of this?

Hot take, but funding?

Yeah.

You know, like tax credits, bursaries, like grants, all that?

It's true.

I mean, money is the most obvious answer here, and it is kind of the solution to a lot of problems with this kind of thing.

I mean, if you look at it,

In the last couple of years, you know, we've seen a couple of breakout Canadian TV hits like Schitt's Creek, for example, heated rivalry, which we were talking about.

And some of those are produced by the public broadcasters.

Some of those are produced by private broadcasters.

But kind of everything in Canada has some level of public support and public funding behind it.

Like with a country of our size, you kind of need that to sustain an entertainment industry.

And now we're seeing the really talented people from Canada, you know, find a global audience.

And that's very exciting.

But, you know, you can't say that those things would have been produced without some level of public support and public money, right?