Canada's Cultural Policy Objectives

Canada has cultural policy objectives that develop Canadian cultural content and ensures that the cultural content is available to all Canadians.
Because of these objectives, many foreign cultural goods are accepted into Canada’s open markets. While having an open market is good for the economy, it also puts pressure on local cultural industries.
Our market is also very small compared to some other countries. They can afford to produce less expensive products and have opportunities to recover their cost. Our relationship with the United States and the fact that we share a common language has caused an expansion of the American market and their cultural products to move in over the border. On the other hand, Canadian cultural products can’t

because the Canadian French language market causes a language barrier between us, creating a natural buffer. Foreign competition holds the most ground in the Canadian cultural market accounting for:
45% of book sales in Canada
81% of English consumer magazines on our newsstands and over 63% of magazine circulation revenue
79% (over $910 million) of the retail sales of tapes, CDs, concerts, merchandise and sheet music
85% ($165 million) of the revenues from film distribution in Canada
and between 94 and 97% of screen time in Canadian theatres.