With my rogue home province of Quebec in the lead, the whiners within the entertainment community are pounding the drums once again. Several articles in the past few days have echoed the high end welfare club's anger over the federal government's decision. Of course, they fail to point out that more than 80% of Telefilm Canada's budget comes from hardworking taxpayers who get double whooped by the Big Three (Bell, Rogers, Videotron) as we pay exorbitant fees that pay for their share of Canada's Entertainment welfare fund. It doesn't end there.

Telefilm Canada gets another chunk of back door funding through taxpayers dollars earmarked under Heritage. Quebec, of course, sucks up more than 45% of all dollars earmarked for "culture" (movies, TV, magazines). They fail to mention that Bell owns Astral which owns the licensing rights to more than 85% of the movies viewed in Canada. Netflix has to pay for those rights. Canadians should be more outraged at the Big Three not Ottawa.