Our mandate is to develop and promote Canadian industry. I'm going to make another analogy with sport.
Canada developed a policy on sports, which is to be present on the international scene; but in order to do that, we have to develop local talents and discover those talents. That makes up a large part of our activities. Of the 80 films we finance, about 60% are first films that come from all of the regions of Canada. In this regard, we developed the Micro-Budget Production Program in cooperation with 36 schools. By now it probably involves 38 schools and co-ops throughout Canada. Each one submits a project. Among the projects we receive, we choose 15 and fund 75% of each project through the Talent Fund. That initiative has been in place for four years, and the films that are made in this way are then preselected at Cannes and at festivals like the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Films from the Aboriginal community such as Fire Song and Le Dep, by Sonia Bonspille Boileau, showcase Canada's cultural diversity. In this way we can discover these talents that come from all over.