Saunders overlooks the role of the new media, television, which on the one hand made us a captive audience for American culture, and on the other, both divided and united Canada further into anglo and franco cultures.
The small number of stations meant everyone within one of those two language communities shared a common culture . Through the CBC and Radio-Canada, Canadian and Quebecois identities and nationalisms developed in parallel, while immigrants were acculturated.

Then the number of tv stations multiplied with cable and satellite, and the Internet further fractured the audience. Immigrants today can remain immersed in the culture of the home country and never watch Canadian programming, and many do just that. Canadian identity and unity are hard to maintain under those conditions.