English producers stunned they were excluded from Quebec report on local TV business

These are tough times for English-language television producers in Quebec, yet the local anglophone television industry doesn’t even merit a single mention in a major new Quebec government report on the crisis in the province’s TV biz.

Twenty-five years ago, Quebec accounted for 26 per cent of all English filming in Canada. In 2022-23, the most recent year for which numbers are available, Quebec had just six per cent of overall shooting in English in the country.

Anglophone Quebec producers appeared in front of the Quebec government study group last fall and told them about the crisis they were facing. They even felt the industry veterans running the study were sympathetic to their point of view. So they were shocked to see they had been completely erased from the report, released in early September, which ended up focusing only on French-language production.