Canadian drama is the linchpin of popular culture. It is the one thing we all turn to. It is the voice that can go from one end of the country to the other. It is a voice that joins us. It is our humour, our fears, our hopes, and our dreams. It's all encompassed in Canadian drama.
That's what Canadian drama does. It tells our stories to us and to our children so that we're part of a country that has stories that are heroic and that form who we are, instead of having our identity constantly chipped away by American programming and American drama, and by having your kids, every time they turn on the TV, watching some American show about some American dream or American reality that is not going to be theirs.
It diminishes us not to have our stories on television in prime time in the form of drama. Unless this turns around, I think we are truly becoming a branch plant of American culture, and that's all we'll ever be. A few people will make a ton of money from it and the rest of us will suffer the consequences. At this point, you see the cracks in the facade already, but I tell you, it will be devastating. We will lose our identity.