Thank you so much.
I want to talk a little bit about the Canada Media Fund. We've been talking about Canada 150 and discussing some of Canada's internationally recognized icons and exports. One of them is documentary films.
A number of documentary filmmakers have spoken to me. I know that some have spoken to the ministry about problems for documentary filmmakers in meeting the new requirements of the Canada Media Fund. It seems to me that with Canada 150 we're actually making it harder for documentary filmmakers, who would actually be able to give voice to the aspirations of our country at 150 years old. There seems to be a strange dichotomy in the department. I want you to speak to this issue. As you know, there are issues around documentary filmmakers being able to meet the requirements of the digital component of the fund.
Also, can you speak to requirements around the audience base for the work? We know that this requirement doesn't really cross over into many stand-alone documentaries, yet these are the kinds of things for which Canada has become known internationally; we're not known internationally for our documentary series on what we now call reality TV.
I'd like you to speak to this issue around documentary films first.