OTTAWA - 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.
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. The definition is at the heart of new legislation before Parliament that would require streaming services to feature a certain amount of Canadian content.