Our members went through a very bad year last year. As you know, all sorts of factors adversely affected our industry: a writers' strike in the United States, a possible actors' strike, the rising Canadian dollar. Remember when it went over 100 cents? It scared off a lot of production activity, because about 50% of our activity in this country is foreign service productions, American productions.
When the dollar rises to a certain point and other factors come into play, production levels drop. So that means less work for our members. But then, of course, we went into a period of economic uncertainty as we moved into the autumn, and that made its influence felt by less work being commissioned domestically as well. It was a perfect storm.
Things are looking a little better this year, but we're not out of the woods yet. Much depends on the CRTC hearings we're going to be involved in tomorrow and much depends on the deliberations of your committee as well.