Let us turn to slide 11.
The sixth question touched on what policies the federal government could adopt to help Canadians and Canadian cultural industries benefit from the developments in emerging and digital media. The government has reoriented a suite of digital media and content programs, including those for music, television, books, and periodicals. The Canada Media Fund is one example of programs to which changes have been made. It has been praised by stakeholders and has generated interest internationally.
The Canada Media Fund has received 85% more applications than did the Canadian Television Fund in its last year. There were 460 applications to the experimental stream alone. We see that as demonstrating a clear appetite for innovation here in Canada. Together these renewed programs represent close to $300 million a year of support by the federal government, as part of a total of almost $500 million when combined with investments by private sector funding partners. If you include in that the Canada feature film policy, the total investment goes up to $820 million.
My colleague Pam Miller will speak to the seventh question.