We welcome the foreign service work that is coming to Canada right now. Frankly, it's been coming to Canada in this kind of volume for the last two or three years. It has become a financial boon for those streaming services that were super hungry for content. It has even been doubled through COVID, when it was recognized that they didn't have enough content for the people who were home for 20 hours a day and were able to watch it. They are eager to produce content. They're choosing Canada as a location, and it's bringing lots of job opportunities and money.
As I said before, when COVID is over, that will likely change to some degree. When they find that things are getting too expensive for one reason or another, they will likely ramp up, especially post-COVID, in South Africa and Australia and other places where they were doing work previous to COVID.
All of that is to say that it doesn't take away from our responsibility to support Canadian production and Canadian stories. We can do that through a number of means. Certainly, this bill goes far by saying that it's time for over-the-tops to contribute. It's time for them to follow the same rules we have for our domestic broadcasters to create actual Canadian content and to make it discoverable on their platform the same way they're doing in many countries around the world. Many other countries have not been shy about saying, “No, you're going to have to produce something in our language and something that supports our culture.” France, Australia and others have put in metrics for companies like Netflix, and Netflix has not had a problem with it.