Mr. Michael Hennessy at the Canadian Heritage Committee

On March 23rd, 2015. See this statement in context.

March 23rd, 2015 / 3:50 p.m.

President and Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Media Production Association

I can also quickly pass this to our producers, but my sense is that financing is always the challenge.

I think we have some incredible talent in this country. In fact, we make TV shows and films, particularly for Hollywood, and 95% of the people working on set are Canadian. The talent is there. The financing to get up to the scale where you compete with the U.K. and the Americans is not.

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