Both groups receive enormous subsidies to promote Canadian television (broadcasters get a ‘local programming fee’ and cable/sat operators get a state-backed monopoly that keeps foreigners out). Both want more money, and both want the other guy to collect the fee, so they other guy looks like a jerk. A pox on both their houses.
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/15/canadas-tv-taxsave-l.html