Canada’s cultural deficit grows
A Canadian Press story says that Canada’s cultural deficit – the gap between the number of magazine, films, and books we ship out of the country versus the number that come in – jumped in 2006. According to Statistics Canada, which tracks this kind of thing, we’ve been importing slightly less of our entertainment from other countries (ok, from the U.S.), but have been exporting a lot less – illegal downloads of the new Arcade Fire album notwithstanding.
And with Alice Munro reportedly retiring and Margaret Atwood already publishing at maximum output, the outlook is even more dire for our cultural exports.
