There are people and groups that have made a lot of noise about this and have put out information that is incorrect. The commission started on this process to look at how we fund Canadian-made productions in a streaming world. The origin was in 2013, when we started our Let's Talk TV proceedings. We actually held a separate proceeding on these independent funds.
One has to remember that this is part of a much wider ecosystem. The decision we issued in August, after a full public process, a very transparent public process, led us to conclude that these independent funds, which historically have always been on the cutting edge of innovation, needed more flexibility. That in no way affects the CMF, which still uses 10 out of 10, in theory, although strangely enough Orphan Black in some instances only has 8 out of 10 or 9 out of 10, because there's a wider ecosystem. There's been much ado about this particular decision when the funding from this source represents less than 2% of all the federal funding available to production.
You can do a letter-writing campaign. ACTRA actually gave people my email address. There are 23,000 ACTRA members. I am surprised you received so many contacts, because there was a call with a form letter to send letters to my personal account, and I received fewer than 50, and there are 23,000 actors.
I agree with you when you say Canadian sound stages have never been so busy. In fact, if there were another production that came along, I don't know where it would be produced, because this is a great age for Canadian production. This production fund is a small part of a much more complex financing system.