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BDU and SPECIALTY PREVIEW #4: How Canadian do we want it?

I’VE HEARD NO END of parallels spun in attempts to explain the complex structure we call the Canadian television industry. From cars and roads and traffic lights to water bottles and Lake Ontario. A house of cards to yarn and a sweater – and even an airplane ride and airline peanuts. Various parts of the industry are the gears in the car, the pre-and post-processed water, the air pressure inside and outside the plane. The yarn-and-sweater analogy is always “if you pull at one thread, the whole things comes apart.” I can’t repeat without a potential libel suit what the...