Industry committee  Yes, absolutely it will. I think you are referring to the ICT program. There are a few different things being discussed there, such as increasing the minimum years of work experience from one year to three years, asking us to pay 30% or more higher salaries to ICT workers, and

Industry committee  Yes, absolutely. Obviously our intellectual property is the lifeblood of our industry, and so we welcome any legislation that continues to help us, along with all creative authors, to protect our copyright from any copyright infringement. We were happy to see that Canada is taki

Industry committee  Yes, anyway, those are the points I'd like to make.

Industry committee  I can answer with an example, although I don't have a statistical study of my own. To answer the second part of the question first, yes, I think it would be valuable to do that study. I have a couple of points. First, we don't hire foreign workers to save money. In fact, we us

Industry committee  I think we'd struggle.

Industry committee  When it comes to the most senior leaders, most of them are actually brought up with years and years of experience in the industry. It's very hard to train someone from a different industry to come into the video game industry as a senior executive, because it is such a specialist

Industry committee  I agree with everything that was just said. The one piece I would add is we need to make it seamless and easy to access senior foreign talent and bring it into the country to help us seed innovation, help us educate, and help us develop the best-of-breed products. We don't hav

Industry committee  I would add that EA is fairly unique from the other members of the panel today in that not only do we develop interactive entertainment software, but we also publish it. Globally, we're a company that employs over 8,000 people and we do look more and more at the cost of developme

Industry committee  Good afternoon. My name is Jon Lutz and I'm the vice-president and chief financial officer for EA Canada. I've been with Electronic Arts for sixteen years, and I've spent the last eight years here in Burnaby, British Columbia, where we make world-renowned games such as NHL, FIF