LETTER TO THE EDITOR: New data supports need for new Cancon support

I READ MAUREEN PARKER’s excellent Commentary “Revamped cultural policy needs facts, recent data” and her critique of Michael Geist’s Globe and Mail article.In response to Maureen's request in the title, here is more recent data from the Canadian Audio-Visual Certification Office’s spring, 2019, data run. These numbers are more recent than the last profile which took its data from CAVCO’s fall, 2018 run.We learn that over the last six years, from 2012-13 to 2017-18, service production in Canada has grown by 234% from $1.458 billion to $4.873 billion (PSTC tax credit in current dollars). Meanwhile, during the same years, Canadian...