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Maybe now they will. I’m really psyched about that. Maybe now we’re opening the country up so that it’s not just for Supernatural and Suits so that all sorts of cool s–t can be done here too, because why the f–k not? … Listen, I think there’s often a disparity and that comes down to the fact that we don’t have the same resources to play with that they do [in America].

Also, there’s a bit of an old boys club up here. Once you’re in, you’re in for good and regardless of the quality you’ll still get to make your thing. So the gag is finding a way to get the good people in there. And I think we’re showing more and more that we can compete. I think Trailer Park Boys, for example, opened the door for [Baruchel’s co-written hockey film] Goon, and Goon was No. 1 here when it opened.

So yeah, there has been a lot of s–t television [in Canada], but there’s a lot of s–t television in the States, too. My friend Jacob Tierney [who directed Baruchel in The Trotsky] put it perfectly when he said we have to get to a point where watching Canadian movies and TV doesn’t feel like homework. It should just be good. Period.

And there’s different ways to get to that. We’re scratching the surface of that [now] but I don’t think cutting funding to the CBC is the best way to do that. I think it’s quite the opposite. If you look at how much every taxpayer in Britain pays into the BBC and compare that to how much we pay into the CBC it’s nothing, and that’s a shame because the CBC is all of ours and it gave the world a bunch of great stuff.

So it’s this weird thing where you’ve got to walk a tightrope of patriotism and creativity. Ideally, the two can inform each other, but they rarely do.