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Canada, which is quickly becoming Hollywood North, wants to reduce American domination of its motion-picture industry with an import licensing system. Communications Minister Flora MacDonald has unveiled plans for legislation setting up a two-tier system that will allow Canadian companies to distribute more foreign films in the country while limiting American companies to distributing films that they produced or to which they hold the world rights. “Films with Canadian locales, stories, stars and other creative elements, which are considered to be outside the U.S. mainstream, have difficulty being financed, distributed, promoted and shown,” MacDonald said in a Toronto speech. A ministry spokesman said Canadians control about 10% of the imported theatrical feature-film market.