- Reaction score
- 10,149
- Points
- 1,140
I think there are two factors not explicitly expressed here that are pretty significant.
1. The creative arts in Canada are pretty much entirely captured by the downtown Toronto/Vancouver/Montreal metropolitan mindset. There is no real room for things outside of it, unless those things mock the "others" of Canada. Corner Gas and Letterkenny are great examples, good shows but the entire premise is "look at these dumb rural folk, and their dumb problems". Military stories fall outside of what the creative care about, so they will get zero attention.
2. Canadians generally assume that anything made in Canada is crap, so have zero desire to invest in made in Canada stories about Canadians.
Given how urbanized Canada now is, I dont think there is much of a plausible fix for issue one. Issue two could be fixed by Canadians paying to see Canadian stories, but most will now do it via YouTube, so there is little money to be made, and little influence outside the already interested people.
1. The creative arts in Canada are pretty much entirely captured by the downtown Toronto/Vancouver/Montreal metropolitan mindset. There is no real room for things outside of it, unless those things mock the "others" of Canada. Corner Gas and Letterkenny are great examples, good shows but the entire premise is "look at these dumb rural folk, and their dumb problems". Military stories fall outside of what the creative care about, so they will get zero attention.
2. Canadians generally assume that anything made in Canada is crap, so have zero desire to invest in made in Canada stories about Canadians.
Given how urbanized Canada now is, I dont think there is much of a plausible fix for issue one. Issue two could be fixed by Canadians paying to see Canadian stories, but most will now do it via YouTube, so there is little money to be made, and little influence outside the already interested people.
