An international co-production is always an avenue to explore. It probably still remains one of the only ways to get a bigger-budget production made.
Last week I was at the MIPTV television market, and there's clearly an interest everywhere in sharing costs of bigger-budget programming. I think the trend toward international co-production is one we should be encouraging. It's a very important avenue, but we'd certainly be concerned if the volume of international co-productions were to completely take over the schedule of any broadcaster. Certainly our public broadcaster should be focused primarily on production reflecting Canada.
I think that in some cases international co-productions can do that as well--it's a global world--but what happens quite often with international co-productions is that they become a way to finance productions, and the creative elements are sometimes diminished in terms of the domestic content.