Thank you for asking that question, which is very important to me.
Cultural sovereignty is a fundamental issue of national identity. This has always been the case. When the CBC/Radio-Canada was created in the 1930s, Canada wanted to set itself apart from its neighbour to the south by saying that we had things to say to each other and that we wanted to communicate with our people.
Then, in 1939, just before the war, Canada created the National Film Board, the NFB, which has now been around for 80 years. There was no studio in Canada, so they created one to produce works in Canada and, for a very long time, only the NFB produced them.
Later, cultural institutions were created so that all these networks and institutions could reflect who we are. Music must be encouraged. We should do it more, in fact. We have two organizations that support the music industry: Musicaction and FACTOR. We need to support the vision of what we are culturally.
It's true that there isn't a large market in Canada. We know that we have an extremely influential neighbour from a cultural standpoint. How can we distinguish ourselves, stand out and say that we aren't the same? What are our values? A lot of this is done through the affirmation of cultural identity.