Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Welcome to our guests, and thank you for presenting here today.
I'll start with Mr. Coates. I was very interested in your comments with respect to Taiwan and Singapore as leaders in the creation of digital media. I had the opportunity to visit Taiwan last year, in fact, and I was very impressed with the vast industrial parks. I also visited a digital arts institute. What I found was that the government picks winning sectors and incentivizes them, whether through grants or favourable tax structures. And certainly it has an intense focus on the education levels of its population and on developing certain skill sets.
They were very interested in the work we do in digital media in Canada and would be interested in linking up with Canadian providers. I was trying to provide an introduction for them to Sheridan College and even to Electronic Arts, out in B.C. They say that we have a specialty in something called anime, which was new to me, but yes, we do.
I was just wondering about your perspective on a national strategy. Do you recommend that we also pick a sector--digital media, for instance--as a sector to nurture and invest in and incentivize?