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For the past 40 years a nationalist vision of protection and preservation has captured policy-makers in Canada’s cultural industries. While some commentators have presented opposing views, until recently they were largely peripheral players, when they were players at all. Like the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan, the opposition to protectionism was confined to a small part […]