When the pioneers came over on the ships to settle the Americas, they didn't really have access to Mozart, and Bach, and Beethoven, composers of the time, per se so they created their own music, which is Canadian. Right now it's played all over the world.
It really is our music. It isn't written by anyone in Europe. So it's very important to keep the tradition of our music going, because it was written around the time we became a nation.