From the performers' perspective, it's very important that this work stay here. Many other forms of media have dropped off significantly, and the employment rates of Canadian performers in film and television have suffered greatly over the years. Video games to a large extent have picked up that slack for a lot of performers.
It's almost like a safety net for Canadian culture in many ways. If you value the arts, such as the theatre, video games now are largely subsidizing that. I can tell you that most of the actors who I work with also do theatre, but it doesn't pay the rent very well anymore, unfortunately. Video games do that in a fantastic way, and in a way that continues to grow, but for us, our jobs are very easily taken offshore by video game companies at the moment.