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Streamers may be required to feature more Cancon. But what should qualify as Canadian?

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Try to guess which of these movies is Canadian: Disney’s Turning Red, which tells the story of growing up as a Chinese-Canadian teen in Toronto and stars Ottawa-born Sandra Oh, or the Oscar-winning sci-fi epic Dune from Montreal director Denis Villeneuve and a team of Canadian collaborators.

Under Canada’s broadcasting laws, neither is considered to be a homegrown film.

Policy-makers and experts in Canada’s creative industries are now grappling with the thorny issue of what, precisely, makes a film or television program Canadian.

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The definition is at the heart of new legislation before Parliament that would require streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon

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