No. I don't know how it is for the actors, but what makes a difference for the writers is that the producer is the broadcaster. For the writer, the fact that no other fund, like the Canadian Television Fund or Telefilm Canada, intervenes means that decisions are made quickly and that there are fewer stakeholders. Moreover, Radio-Canada has had major successes and has built a faithful audience with those series. That's no longer the trend at Radio-Canada. Most of the people who work there permanently on direction were virtually laid off. In a way, that's unfortunate because it's hard for Radio-Canada to plan for the long term with the form of funding it has now. It depends on outside resources, on the Canadian Television Fund and so on. So it can plan 13- or perhaps 26-episode series. When you see 13 in Radio-Canada's programming, you wait for six months before you see the next 13. And the audience, since its habits have been broken, seems to do what CBC's audience has done, that is to say it switches to other television networks. In an ideal world, Radio-Canada would have the resources to do in-house production as well and to be able to provide greater continuity with private producers.
On May 25th, 2007. See this statement in context.