Thank you.
I was fascinated when hearing my colleague Madame Bourgeois talk about its use in school, because I can attest that when I was growing up we saw National Film Board films more times than I can remember, and even at church outings they showed us National Film Board shows. So we grew up consistently on it.
Again, I want to reiterate my opinion that the National Film Board continues to transform in the new millennium, because our young audience is much different from the audience when I was in school.
I recently saw Last Round, the George Chuvalo documentary. I think that's one of the best documentaries I've seen in memory.
I saw another National Film Board film that may have slipped under a lot of people's radars: Harvest Queens. I was very touched by that film because it actually takes place in my region. My wife and I used to always say that the harvest queen fall fair pageant would make a great documentary, but we never expected that anybody ever would do it. I live in northern Ontario, and nobody ever covers our stories, which is why we grew up loving hockey, because it was the only time we ever saw our place mentioned; we had Frank Mahovlich or Steve Sullivan or someone else. But nobody seemed to bother to come north to celebrate what we had. That film was a very poignant film. If we didn't have the film board, a film like that would never have been made, as far as I can see.
I just want to put that on the record—