Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to our guests.
It appears to me, and has now for the last two meetings, that this is a greater and more complex industry than I had imagined, and a lot of it deals with the facts you have spoken about here. But, of course, as we're doing this report we have to come up with recommendations.
The school aspect of it is very interesting because we should probably look at a model similar to what Germany is doing. They actually have technical schools set up around clusters of industries, specifically for that reason. We obviously are not there. Maybe we should consider doing that, but the cultural side is what really interests me, because we do have cultural industries that we invest in, and heavily in some cases. We brought up the Canada Media Fund and other organizations but it seems to me the bulk of the conversation is about tax credits. There are labour-based tax credits for starters, and the digital economy strategy. There's the SR and ED program. You mentioned the SR and ED program, and that really only affects 25% to 30% of the workforce, the programmers. The other side is creative, which is where the Department of Canadian Heritage has a role. Therefore, we go back to the standard bearers that we invest in, such as the Canada Media Fund.
We also have regulations about Canadian content, and God knows I'd love to see an angry puffin in Angry Birds because I'm from Newfoundland. I would love it.