Canadian Heritage committee  Madam, you asked three questions. I'll try to remember all three. The first concerned the market. As a result of Quebec culture, the French-language film market is a captive market in Quebec. Quebec has managed to establish a star system. It has its star producers, its star dir

Canadian Heritage committee  I watch a lot of films, especially on TV, because I live in the country and I'm far away from the movie theatres. I have a satellite television system and that's how I watch films. My wife and I are in the habit of watching films every time we have supper together. I see an avera

Canadian Heritage committee  I don't think we can say there was a slowdown. The year the Quebec film industry recorded its biggest box office success was scarcely two years ago. That was in 2005 or 2006. My experts tell me I'm right. That's not very long ago. You can't see that as a downward trend. As you'll

Canadian Heritage committee  In my opinion, a fund that would have the effect of stimulating co-production, whether it be for French- or English-language films, is, as I'm speaking to you now, a vision for the future of Telefilm Canada.

Canadian Heritage committee  I know that the Department of Canadian Heritage has previously worked on the development of a policy. It's not just a matter of presenting a program. That program has to be given a framework by a departmental policy. I know that the Department of Canadian Heritage has already sta

Canadian Heritage committee  —as soon as possible, I hope. I haven't seen the timetable.

Canadian Heritage committee  I haven't seen one.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, sir. As Chair of the Board, I am accountable to the Minister of Canadian Heritage. My relations with the minister are direct and will go through the appropriate channels, through the officials of the Department of Canadian Heritage. Mr. Wayne Clarkson, whom your comm

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, there are documentary films. I'm not answering you in my capacity as Chair of Telefilm Canada. My role is generally not to determine whether we should fund such and such a film. That concerns operations, and that's not my department. I'll leave that to Telefilm Canada offici

Canadian Heritage committee  That will probably be a good reason to give on the day I want to tender my resignation to Telefilm Canada.

Canadian Heritage committee  That's not an easy question. I'm not sure I know enough about the British Columbia market to answer it very specifically. However, I learned from the documents I examined that the British Columbia film industry was based mainly on U.S. productions filmed in Vancouver, among other

Canadian Heritage committee  Sir, I believe the interpreter had trouble following you. If I understand correctly, you regret the excessively large number of American films broadcast by the CBC. That's not a situation I've studied thus far. You regretted it in the case of Radio-Canada and I regreted it in th

Canadian Heritage committee  You're absolutely right. I briefly addressed the question a little earlier. I could talk to you about an experience that I had and that I think has a number of points in common with what you're raising. However, I don't know how much time I have left.

Canadian Heritage committee  In the mid-1970s, I was deputy minister of tourism in Quebec. The situation at the time was very similar to that currently prevailing in the film industry in English Canada. In the tourism industry, the large hotel owners didn't talk to the small hotel owners, the hotel owners di