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separation from the rest of English Canada. West-Coast consciousness is becoming readily apparent, and every Vancouver filmmaker prefaced his comments with, ““Out West, we...”
C. Only Toronto is left espousing federalism. Yet, believing in federalism in Canada today is like glorifying motherhood when every woman in the world is sterile. Nice idea, perhaps — but totally impossible. Toronto keeps talking federalist because then the seat of power will always stay in Toronto. Maybe it’s time to develop an Ontarian identity and stop speaking for all of English Canada.
D. The Prairie provinces are experiencing strong growing pains (see end of this article). Filmmakers from _ the Prairies have started lumping both Toronto and Vancouver in the same bag of controlling-power. This awareness will undoubtedly increase.
E. Although the Maritimes were not represented, they too are emerging on their own terms. Just look at all the filmmakers’ co-ops — Atlantic Filmmakers Co-op, Association Cooperative des Productions Audio Visuelles in Montréal, the Toronto Filmmakers Coop, the Pacific Filmmakers Co-op, and the newly formed Winnipeg Filmmakers Co-op. They all point to strong regional identities as a growing trend.
More than that — this new wave of regionalisation is one of the healthiest movements in English Canada. For one thing, maybe we’ll stop trying to find ONE identity for all of English Canada. Maybe the answer to, “Just what is it that makes you so different from the Americans?’’ will only come about if we start looking at our immediate cultures, and stop trying to make-believe that all English-Canadians are the same.
But more importantly, regionalisation will bring about our badly needed unity. No, that is not a contradiction in terms. Good friendships can only be born among equals. In its own zany way, the week at Winnipeg started to do that. Once English Canadians stopped trying to “‘get Québec back in the fold’’, our true similarities and common problems could be faced.
The Conclusion
The very last panel discussion — The Future of the Industry — sums up the mood of the Winnipeg Symposium:
First off, there was a revolutionary treading of the famous Winnipeg Manifesto (performed with great fervour by Jack Gray) resulting in almostspontaneous applause. Several moments of sheer embarrassment ensued, broken by Chalmers Adams’ suggestion that each panelist explain how he, individually, was going to continue.
Solemnity prevailed, and no one wanted to be the first to speak. Finally, Kirwan Cox started reiterating that we
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