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"from How to be Indie to Degrassi.. I just can't get rid of Dylan Everett"
To the outside viewer (usually American), after you start watching a few Canadian-made shows, you start to notice something. Something weird. Oh sure, Hey, It's That Guy! is totally normal... but it starts getting odd when you're watching Canadian TV, and you start shouting "Hey! It's that Guy!"... every five minutes, at every actor.
That's where this trope comes in.
You see, in Canada, the government offers significant tax breaks and direct subsidies to Canadian-made TV shows, in exchange enforcing a "Canadian actors only" policy for the majority of roles. But there are only so many actors in Canada, especially young actors. The country already has a relatively small population to begin with (about 35 million, roughly 1/9 that of the US), and when you narrow the actors down to a specific age group (between 15 and 30, like most of the ones below), and then combine that with the fact that Canada has become a very popular shooting location for American producers on a tight budget, you're only left with a tiny handful of actors. Additionally, most of these actors often stay in Canada for the rest of their careers (though not always by choice). That said, some have managed to break out it; notably, Ellen Page and Aubrey Graham.
This isn't necessarily a bad thing — if anything, it becomes enjoyable to the viewer, and because of the frequent recurrence of these actors, there often isn't much Role Association.
Oddly enough, the people associated with this trope rarely, if ever, tend to come into contact with actors from The Ocean Group or Nelvana. Except with Franklin and Jane and the Dragon.
— Melinda Shankar, official Facebook page  .
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