Looking in the rearview, we would have preferred that the Competition Bureau not allow the merger that gave rise to virtually a single distribution company that goes after the majority of public funding. What's more, we are talking about a foreign company that has set up shop in a tax haven. It's totally immoral. It's not against the law, but it is wrong. Funding should have been given to the competitors that were left by the wayside, in other words, all the independent distributors.
Also important is the fact that most producers come to us, as independent distributors, to have their films distributed. In Canada, a producer isn't allowed to submit a production project to Telefilm Canada or SODEC without first having received a guaranteed amount of minimum funding from a distributor. That's how it works here. And we finance that guaranteed minimum funding through TV pre-sales. The solution would be to capitalize independent distributors.