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Canadian Heritage committee In light of these findings, we believe that a comprehensive government strategy is needed to develop a Canadian communications policy that would embrace dissemination, distribution and communication for both conventional and digital media, and that would reflect the values and pr
May 4th, 2010Committee meeting
Brigitte Doucet
Canadian Heritage committee With regard to copyright, we note that a brief was submitted to the federal government during the last consultations. It can be provided to you as necessary. What we are presenting now is a summary of certain aspects addressed in that brief. With regard to piracy and protective
May 4th, 2010Committee meeting
Brigitte Doucet
Canadian Heritage committee That was not my intention... I didn't notice.
May 4th, 2010Committee meeting
Brigitte Doucet
Finance committee First of all, funding is needed for research and development in the audiovisual industry, which now has to create productions on all platforms. Film and television producers now need to discover and learn about information and communications technologies, develop content that is
November 1st, 2010Committee meeting
Brigitte Doucet
Finance committee Fifth, a review of the Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit program is needed in order to better support the Canadian film industry and to ensure that it is better adapted to the new needs of the digital economy. The support of federal tax credits, which represent, on a
November 1st, 2010Committee meeting
Brigitte Doucet
Finance committee The exact expectations have not been quantified. Our industry, that is, the audiovisual industry, has no programs specifically for research and development. At this time, producers need to test business models for all digital media. It is a question of testing various ways to wor
November 1st, 2010Committee meeting
Brigitte Doucet
Finance committee In research and development, tax credit programs do exist for labour and there are some specifically for information technology. We believe it is the same kind of principle. These people need to do research and development to become more knowledgeable and perfect their fields. We
November 1st, 2010Committee meeting
Brigitte Doucet
Finance committee I would simply like to make one small clarification, if I may. Yes, there is a tax credit in Quebec, but only in multimedia. It requires interactivity and multimedia producers who produce games and who produce something big like that. As for audiovisual, I assume you are perhaps
November 1st, 2010Committee meeting
Brigitte Doucet
Finance committee There are some.
November 1st, 2010Committee meeting
Brigitte Doucet
Finance committee Yes.
November 1st, 2010Committee meeting
Brigitte Doucet
Finance committee Yes, that is exactly it. I simply wanted to point out there has been no research and development in this area.
November 1st, 2010Committee meeting
Brigitte Doucet
Finance committee Companies that work in the audiovisual sector, movie and television producers that have to work on other platforms, are not eligible for now. This applies to people who development games, video games or other types of web sites, but it does not apply... I have gone over the progr
November 1st, 2010Committee meeting
Brigitte Doucet
Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee Good afternoon. My name is Brigitte Doucet, Deputy Director General of the Association des producteurs de films et de télévision du Québec, the AQPFTQ. With me today is Patrick Boie, Director of Communications. From the outset, I must apologize to the interpreters. I'm going to
February 17th, 2011Committee meeting
Brigitte Doucet
Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee You can see that in our brief.
February 17th, 2011Committee meeting
Brigitte Doucet
Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee In fact, our position is slightly different, although it is not opposed to that. A lot of subtle distinctions must be drawn. There are differences between film and television, for example. In television, one can imagine a television program for which the director, for example, d
February 17th, 2011Committee meeting
Brigitte Doucet