Ummm....
What does NAFTA have to do with this?
As far as I know, there were no or minimal tariffs on the import of movies or film from Canada before NAFTA.
Canada does have some restrictions that content broadcast in Canada must contain a significant "Canadian" portion, and those restrictions may or may not fall as a result of NAFTA...
So is there any reason to think that NAFTA has anything to do with film production in Canada? There is a reference to "NAFTA-sanctioned subsidies" provided by the Canadian government, but surely NAFTA did not *create* these subsidies--it only failed to remove them.
Surely the balance of trade is still overwhelming in favor of the U.S.: eliminate all international trade in TV, movies, and movie production and Hollywood movie employment goes down by at least half.
So where's the beef?
Brad DeLong