Thank you, Jean-Pierre.
As regards the implementation of controls, this mainly concerns the management of the Canadian Audio-Visual Certification Office and the co-management relationship between the Tax Credit Program and the Canada Revenue Agency. As regards the certification of files, we've already implemented the strictest analysis procedures. We now send the Canada Revenue Agency monthly reports on project certification and revocation, as the Auditor General suggested. We're updating our procedures manual for analysts of the Tax Credit Program.
All the recommendations were very serious, but one of them emphasized that we were running the risk of granting tax credit certificates for productions involving non-Canadian creators because we were not requiring Canadian citizenship. Within two weeks, we will have amended the procedures. In support of their certificate applications, producers will now have to submit proof of Canadian citizenship rather than merely an affidavit.
Now I'm going to talk about the efficiency of the controls in general. On three occasions, in the context of what's commonly called the Lincoln report, and in that of the feature film report prepared by this committee, recommendations were made in this area. The Auditor General, for her part, recommended a more strategic approach to the certification of Canadian content. As we had stated in the government's responses on the subject, we are working on ensuring that Canadian content of Canadian audio-visual productions is certified in one and the same location.