I think the basic answer is no.
The content of that film and the nature of it have been widely discussed in the media over the past couple of weeks. One point that I think hasn't been made clearly enough is that the vetting process for granting money for these sorts of projects, even for film festivals that decide to screen films like this, is clearly not rigorous enough. We are ignoring the threat of Russian information operations, the way they try to manipulate us and how they do it.
With regard to this film, it would have taken some simple vetting to look at the filmmaker. The fact that the filmmaker made 12 films for RT over the past decade or less—it was six years, or something like that—should have been a huge red flag. We know, as I mentioned in my opening remarks, that RT is an extension of Russia's intelligence apparatus. Again, it didn't take much. You just have to put the filmmaker's name into Google and you would find this out.
I would conversely say that there are some very good Russian journalists we should be supporting—people like Dmitry Muratov, the editor of Novaya Gazeta, who's in Toronto today to speak at a gala for Journalists for Human Rights. He bravely speaks out against the Kremlin, despite all the threats against him, and he continues to live in Moscow.
There are hundreds of independent Russian journalists living abroad whom we could be supporting, who will speak truth to the war and who have been doing so. They've been forced into exile.
There's a lot more that we could be doing. Again, we have to be very careful about who we're funding in terms of any sort of content that's proposed about Russia.