Industry committee  Thank you. Just to your earlier point, Mr. Warawa, on games, even Frank Underwood in House of Cards is a video game player. He's played since his childhood among other things. But I think ultimately where games will take us is connectivity between devices. Games are pushing th

Industry committee  Happily, this is not a concern at Warner Brothers. However, as the president of Alliance numérique, I will answer that access to funding is very important for the member companies, especially for very small ones. In fact, think that the emergence of small players is actually the

Industry committee  I'd say, product-wise to Mr. Smith's point, it is global. But talent-wise, which is another part of our business, it's mostly the U.S. That's where people would have the most facility to move to.

Industry committee  Obviously we work—in the case of Batman and all our other superheroes—closely with DC Comics, which is based in L.A., and they have us on a short leash to make sure we respect the canon of Batman. It's important for us to respect that brand.

Industry committee  On that I must say that Ubisoft operates at another level than we do. It employs between 3,000 and 3,500 people located in Toronto, Montreal and Quebec. For our part, we have not encountered that particular problem. Thanks to their spouse's work permit, wives—since we are genera

Industry committee  All right. Well, I'll start off by saying I think I got a high score notification from the office on your gaming, but....

Industry committee  There are spinoffs. They're not necessarily always apparent but some of the stuff that we do in games, calculating physics for example, can definitely be used in other areas. We're obviously more in tune with creating entertainment. That is what Warner Bros. does. But some of the

Industry committee  We mostly go through universities for our internship programs, so that's not something we've touched upon just yet. But we're also a younger studio, so we started our internships about 18 months ago.

Industry committee  Yes, they are.

Industry committee  I think our ability in a sense to guarantee...or at least help in getting people moving rather quickly is certainly key. Coming to Canada, people often know to expect sometimes higher taxes than they have where they come from, and often individuals are willing to forego that just

Industry committee  I couldn't tell you exactly the number of weeks right now. I know it's gotten somewhat better, but I'd have to check with my HR folks. I don't remember the exact amount of time.

Industry committee  Sometimes it has. Often, it becomes a little more difficult to convince people to hold on to our offer, because, obviously, that gives more time for either their current employer to up the stakes or for someone else to swoop in where they are already.

Industry committee  Yes, it is.

Industry committee  I remember, I think at some point before, there were some income tax holidays, where if people qualified under a certain researcher level, or something like that.... That's often very important—it's not something that lasts ten years in time, but maybe one or two years—and it bec

Industry committee  Back to my earlier point, lots of people have atypical backgrounds in games. I was a political science and then a business graduate from McGill, went into aerospace, and then this new company called Ubisoft came to town in 1997 and started hiring like crazy. I figured that maybe