Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you. First of all, I'll point out, as I think Monsieur Roy mentioned in his address, that it was four or five years ago that the responsibilities for television financing and programming shifted from Telefilm Canada to the Canadian Television Fund, so those responsibilitie

Canadian Heritage committee  I would address it to Val Creighton. She is the president of the Canadian Television Fund. I'd be glad to ask her to provide you with detailed information on what resources within the CTF they have available to support that.

Canadian Heritage committee  I can't speak directly to a relationship with the Canada Council; if so, it would be very informal. There are some programs within the Canada Council. I think they have a first-time, low-budget, filmmaker program. We have something comparable, but we demand a little more business

Canadian Heritage committee  It didn't work, so we won't go there. But I think this incentive is a good one.

Canadian Heritage committee  Pay networks often--in fact, more often than not, with the rare exception that I can think of--buy the licence fees for it. We would like to see those licence fees go up, as an example. Issues like that are very simple. For instance, what is their obligation as mandated by the CR

Canadian Heritage committee  I will. In fact, I'm embarrassed to say you reprimanded me in your office when we met some months ago and drew to my attention “the informal use of”. So I will be much more judicious in my use of that language. Thank you.

Canadian Heritage committee  There is an integral relationship between the broadcast industry generally and the Canadian film industry. In a very high percentage of projects, both co-productions--in which Canada is a part, obviously--and our domestic feature film fund productions, we see participation by bro

Canadian Heritage committee  To be clear, certainly this is not so much to do with the Canadian television fund.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, it is, but not in every instance. I am responsible for all decisions in the English-language fund for requests of more than $1.5 million from Telefilm. So in working with the regional offices--as I mentioned, we have four offices across the country--the filter system begins

Canadian Heritage committee  First of all, there are various requirements in terms of coming into Telefilm. We talked about the Canadian content ones. We have script developers who read the scripts, and those scripts may be in development for a year or two. We're constantly working on that. I think one of t

Canadian Heritage committee  I think the flexibility is a benefit. I am sorry for repeating myself, but to go back to this multi-platform universe, we have to be able to respond quickly to the changes in the environment, to the changes in the industry, industrially as well as culturally. To move quickly we

Canadian Heritage committee  It's the magic of cinema. I think, to quote a famous screenwriter who said, when being critical of Hollywood, “nobody knows anything”. Having said that, and to give some compliment and credit to Telefilm and its staff, it is an experienced staff. It's knowledgeable in distributi

Canadian Heritage committee  The goal of the Canadian feature film fund was 5% of the domestic market. Over the five years of the Canadian feature film fund, as you know, we reached that. We exceeded it by a modest 0.3%. Behind that success, we all know, is the dramatic—

Canadian Heritage committee  —accomplishment of Quebec cinema, which at its peak in 2005-06 achieved something around 25% or 26%. The maximum in English Canada was 1.9%. For the vast majority, I would say approximately 85% are American productions, along with 85% of the box office. The difference would be n

Canadian Heritage committee  As Monsieur Bélanger has stated, flexibility is an advantage. Certainly in the multi-platform universe, it's an even greater advantage. If I may, on your two points about business and culture, as long as I've been involved in the cultural industries, keeping that balance has been