A Declaration of Culture War?

For years, the Canadian culture industry has treated American cultural products as something of a bear in the woods (to strike a Reagan-esque metaphor).

Would it surprise a lot of Canadians to find that the bear is just as afraid of us as we are of the bear?

An American conservative group, calling itself Declaration Productions (naming itself, it seems, after the Declaration of Independence) has set up shop. Working around a cooperative model, the group promises to make pro-America movies (as if there were any shortage of them).

In a YouTube video explaining the purpose of the group, they accuse foreign influence -- in the form of foreign money -- of corrupting Hollywood so instead it allegedly made anti-American films (in other words, anything that criticizes the United States).



At the 4:16 mark of the video, those influences are basically identified. Clearly identifiable in the top right-hand corner is none other than the CN Tower. Toronto. Canada.

With Canadians having been so concerned about the cultural impact of American cultural products on Canadian culture, it's amusing to see that American conservatives have identified Canadian capital as one of the sources of what they see as the rot of American culture.

The question that remains is this: should Canadians be amused that such a group could identify Canadian influence on their culture as overwhelming negative? Should Canadians be angry about it? Or should we take it seriously at all?