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More than half of Canadians want Cancon regs dropped: poll

TORONTO – The majority of Canadians feel that Canadian Content rules should be relaxed, according to a new Ipsos Reid poll.In ‘The Canadian-Content Conundrum’ survey, 53% of the 1,024 adults polled said that they closely agreed with the sentiment that ‘we should stop worrying about and imposing Canadian content rules on the TV industry because we know what our identity is and we should just care about and value creating good entertainment that anyone will tune into, and if it happens to be Canadian in content and/or production, all the better’.  This was particularly true amongst those living in Saskatchewan...