Mr. Speaker, my hon. friend is somehow opposed to the people he calls the bureaucrats in Telefilm Canada refereeing who will get the support and who will not.
One question I should ask him is who should referee it? Certainly not a group of politicians from committee. Does he have any suggestions of who would be better referees than we have at the present time?
Another question jumped out at me during his speech. He was talking about banking systems responding if a company had an order. That is very commendable in itself, but what is an order for a film? What is an order for something that has yet to be created? It is not an order for a bottle of milk.
With it goes risk. It is a creative risk. It is all those things banks do not like to deal in. That is why it is still necessary to help allay some of the risk at least. Each film that is made, each television series that is ventured, each pilot show that is done, is done with some creative risk. Either it will be a success or it will bomb. Some of them bomb. They are not all successful.