But the only reason that half of the Canadian music we all know and love exists at all is because of the CanCon laws that regulate Canadian radio. FM and AM is forced to play a high percentage of Canadian music.
If they're forced to play Canadian music, it would seem to me that many or most people aren't interested in where the music came from as long as it gets your foot thumping. I'm a Canadian myself and I'm not interested in where it came from as long as it sounds good to me.
I feel like these laws are from a time before Youtube. In an age when anyone can post a video online and be famous if people actually like their work, why do we (Canadians) have to mandate that some of our music is Canadian?