Thank you to everyone for being here.
Mr. Moisan hit the nail on the head about being cutting edge. While Canada is a world leader—we're number three in the world in game development; we're first per capita—and that was the result of our having many years of competitive advantage, it's important to realize that's no longer the case. We do not have many of those competitive advantages anymore, and the rest of the world is working hard to catch up to us and overtake us.
Mr. Lutz, you were briefly talking about the FIFA franchise, which is actually the only sports game you developed that's still on PC, and that's because of how strong it is worldwide. As I understand it, you're in Burnaby and you're actually competing with the other EA development shops around the world. New Zealand, for instance, has a more streamlined temporary foreign workers program that you could take advantage of, and is pitching really hard to take some of those games away from Burnaby and develop them there. Now you even have companies that are competing internally with other jurisdictions, and if we lose those jobs, those franchises, that's going to be a serious economic hit.
It's really important to see how critical this is, because these are jobs that pay well above the national average salary. They're family-supporting jobs. They're high-skilled, high-valued jobs. The world is not going to get less digital in the next 20, 30, 40, 50 years. The United States has an even bigger problem than we do, where there are 150,000 programming jobs being created there each year, but only half that many people are actually graduating in that field. We have a similar problem in Canada, where we're actually not able to keep up for the talent. Educationally speaking, we have to work hard to get more people into those areas. Familiarity with computers and educational programs certainly helps.
Mr. Shariff, earlier you were talking about the CSA and NASA cutbacks to 0%, and that you are now focusing more on commercialized products. As a company, that's the decision you have to make because you have to bring enough money in.