From BioWare's perspective, especially in the early years we were very fortunate to be able to rely on a lot of the government programs: first jobs in science and technology, IRAP, western economic diversification, and certainly the SR and ED tax credit programs. They were really important in helping us to grow as a studio without actually having to take external investment.
From our perspective now, we're a fairly stable, fairly large studio and part of a 9,000 person organization. The programs are very important still to continue to drive innovation within our organization. It's the smaller development teams that really need the continued support. I would expect that it probably has affected them more than us directly.