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Some of the highest-profile movies featuring and made by Canadians in recent years have not officially counted as Canadian. Policy-makers and experts are now grappling with the thorny issue of what, precisely, makes a film or television program Canadian.
OTTAWA - Try to guess which of these movies is Canadian: Disney’s “Turning Red,” which tells the story of growing up as a Chinese-Canadian teen in Toronto and stars Ottawa-born Sandra Oh, or the Oscar-winning sci-fi epic “Dune” from Montreal director Denis Villeneuve and a team of Canadian collaborators.