In the mid-1970s, I was deputy minister of tourism in Quebec. The situation at the time was very similar to that currently prevailing in the film industry in English Canada. In the tourism industry, the large hotel owners didn't talk to the small hotel owners, the hotel owners didn't talk to the restaurant owners, and the restaurant owners didn't talk to the special events organizers. Each worked in isolation, no one talked to each other, and everyone relied on the government to promote tourism.
That example may not be perfect, but it seems to me that it's very similar to what English Canada is going through now. The best way to try to build a strong film industry in English Canada would be precisely to bring these people together. In the film industry, the situation was the same in Quebec a few years ago. Now we have events such as Ciné Québec, which I attended this week. It's a kind of market where producers present their productions to distributors in the room. The distributors present their distribution books to movie theatre owners who are also there. All these people talk to each other. I think that's a fundamental condition for the marketing of the English-language film industry to take off.