The film is conceived, written, directed, produced and edited by a Canadian, James Cameron. It’s also shot using IMAX technology, which is a Canadian invention
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This is set to become particularly relevant given that the Senate is close to passing Bill C-11, a far-reaching piece of legislation that would impose mandatory Canadian content requirements on much of the Canadian internet.Streaming platforms such as Netflix and Disney+ would be forced to tweak their algorithms to artificially give greater exposure to Canadian films and TV shows.
The movie satisfies the requirement that “the producer must be Canadian,” but fails a complex checklist of other metrics by which Ottawa officially denotes a program’s Canadianness.
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