Thank you. I'll move it along.
One of our capabilities, as you can see, is that we are well known for having strength in both content development and original IT. A number of international companies have located here. We all know that Canada is a wonderful place in which to live and do business. If we look across the country, as I've touched on, we have a real hub in Montreal. We have some very progressive things happening in Manitoba and the prairie provinces. In Atlantic Canada, they have a small but growing cluster that has focused on some original IT, and also secondary and tertiary studios that are serving them well.
Just so you know where this workforce is coming from, you might be surprised to learn that we have close to 160 training programs that are producing the people who work in this sector. We are known for having a culture of innovation and storytelling—that's part of our heritage.
I'm just going to skip over the next part, which talks about the graduate program we're starting. New Media BC in particular, you might have heard, is leading a proposal that has been presented federally to establish Canada as a world centre in digital media, to build capacity in the industry across all levels. The discussion we're having today is very important to this project. As you can see, the development of what we want to do internationally in positioning Canada as a world leader is going to rely on indigenous programming and having an ally such as the CBC to help us develop capacity across the country.
I'm going to end the PowerPoint part of that presentation here and move on to some of our thoughts around the questions you've posed, and we're all going to contribute to that.
Let me just tell you where we are in the process. We are drafting a formal document to present to you, but that is not completed yet. In fact, we didn't know that we were confirmed to present this morning, so I hope you will indulge us as we work through our thoughts on your questions.
Before we move into the questions, I'd like to introduce my colleague Phillip Djwa, who runs a very successful digital media company. He's going to give you some insight as a small to mid-sized enterprise in the questions you've posed and his role in that.