Yes, it is, but not in every instance. I am responsible for all decisions in the English-language fund for requests of more than $1.5 million from Telefilm. So in working with the regional offices--as I mentioned, we have four offices across the country--the filter system begins and then rises up. I meet with my counterparts across the country, I meet with the producers in question, and we make a decision.
To go back to the fundamentals of your question, let's be candid: we make bad movies. It happens. It happens all over the world. They make thousands of films in America. I go to the movies a lot. I go to Hollywood movies, I go to art movies, I see maybe a movie a week. That's 50 to 60 movies. I don't see the other 2,000-plus.
In this country, a limited number of films we make and the distributors who require the rights to those end up on the screen. Frankly, some of them should not. It's the best effort from the filmmakers, best effort on everybody's part, but sometimes a bad film gets made. Or to be a little more diplomatic, there are films that don't meet the expectations of the filmmaker, the producer, or any of the sources of financing, whether it's a broadcaster, pay television network, private investor, or in this case, a provincial or federal agency.