When you control who tells the story, you control the story. We need more women directors, more women screenwriters, more women producers. There is no shortage of talent in any of those categories.
What we find, when you do a review of the numbers coming out of Telefilm or the Canada Media Fund, is that women producers, writers, and directors are generally being funded at lower-budget levels and not so much at higher-budget levels.
That is going to change over time, but to Mr. Eglinski's question, certainly not without proactive measures. Telefilm, the CMF, CBC, the NFB, all have proactive measures in place. Certainly the industry and the CMPA are taking a leadership role and are taking additional measures to advance women in key creative positions. That's how you change those stories. That's how you change how little girls see themselves and understand what's possible for them, and that's how they grow into women who are going to step forward and take those roles that they should be taking now.