In one specific way, they do in the sense that, in Quebec—specifically in Quebec, but elsewhere in Canada, of course—we can pride ourselves in having a tremendously skilled and experienced workforce working with all the new technologies. Naturally, that attracts American producers. However, the critical mass of productions that a country must keep up is also a measure of success in the sense of co-productions that also bring a lot of foreign capital to a country. Co-production is an area that should not be overlooked. Hollywood productions are fine: they are new dollars that come into the economy that would not have come in otherwise. Co-production does the same. But to be successful with international productions, you have to have a strong workforce and production infrastructures and those things are built by local productions.
On November 20th, 2012. See this statement in context.