Canadian Heritage committee  When the Film Development Corporation began back in 1997, production activity in this province was a little over $1 million, and in our best year, 2005-06, as I said in my presentation, we reached $27 million in production activity. Just to put that into perspective, with the exception of one $4 million feature film, the rest of that was CBC productions.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you. On behalf of the Newfoundland and Labrador Film Development Corporation, I welcome the opportunity to offer our thoughts on the role of the public broadcaster in the 21st century to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage. We are pleased that you have come to our province for these hearings.