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That's because Canadian Content laws make it vastly cheaper to shoot in Canada than in California. And we hate you for it. Had a chat with the DIT on Tron. Producers wouldn't let him bring his own assistant - he had to hire a Canadian assistant. DIT didn't want a Canadian assistant, he wanted the guy he'd been working with for ten years. Offered to take a pay cut to pay the assistant out of his own share - talkin' $550 a day for four months. Was told by the production that they were saving so much in incentives that it would cost them money for him to pay his assistant himself. Next movie out? Yeah, they went with the Canadian assistant as DIT.