Do you mean specifically in the case of the envelopes? Yes. For example, Bon Cop, Bad Cop was an enormous success. It is going to receive in the fiscal year after this one an envelope of up to about $3 million or $3.5 million that is under the responsibility of its producer--does not have to go to Telefilm to read the script, evaluate it, and determine whether it merits.... In other words, we are providing incentive to successful producers.
It creates its own challenges. It means there is a cap on funding in the selective fund. What if I don't have an envelope? How do I get an envelope? The working groups have raised that issue.
The working groups working with Telefilm Canada will address that issue. If there's going to be a recommendation for change in the envelope system, it will be in consultation with that industry and with this agency. To the degree it requires either the department or cabinet to embrace it, we'll go forward jointly with the industry and make that representation.
With all due respect to our producer colleagues, if a producer wants to make a film for $5 million and is asking you for 49% of it, and you turn it down, that film more often than not doesn't get made, and they get very upset with Telefilm Canada--it happens--and when producers want envelopes or lose envelopes because they can't sustain the level of success that is required, they get upset as well.