Ever since the cutbacks began, we have been looking for a reason that makes sense from an accounting or political stance. However, we really have not come up with anything. We are in fact starting to think that there is some type of ideology, some way of looking at culture that is behind this, something that we are perhaps not used to seeing. As you said, there appears to be a preference for mass culture rather than more specialized culture. There does not appear to be an overall view of Canadian culture with all of its various facets.
On October 22nd, 2009. See this statement in context.