“CTV and Global are asking for the so-called carriage fees because they say their revenues are plummeting; they have promised the CRTC that the money would go toward local programming, helping pay for the beleaguered local newscasts. Despite the fond hopes of Canadian television creators, they have not suggested the money would go toward Canadian drama, a genre that has shrivelled since a CRTC decision in 1999 expanded the definition of priority programming.”