
You may not have realized this, but Canada is now “bleeding” some three quarters of a billion dollars in cultural spending on an annual basis, to the detriment of Canadian film, television, music, and writing. It’s a veritable “crisis,” and we need a “collective sense of urgency” or else our cultural industries will be “decimated.” In my latest Québécois Libre article, “The Loaded Language of Cultural Nationalism,” I give this very serious problem all the analysis it deserves.