Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The dollars going down, is that the question?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Absolutely. Going back to our webisodes project, a lot of the webisodes will be out in the communities. We will go to as many communities as we can. We will engage the services of community members who are members of the film industry or who are interested in becoming members of the film industry.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, part of it is dedicated to the development of the webisodes, and the Film and Sound Commission is also contributing some money. Some of it will be for the initial ad placements, and then we'll just roll it into our ongoing marketing efforts at the Film and Sound Commission.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think we're pretty competitive. We're pretty much on par with Ontario and Quebec right now, although I would like to point out that we announced ours two months before they announced theirs, so we assume they copied us. It's a 25% rebate on your Yukon spending for location servicing productions.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, we do. We actually have a software package that gives us the ability to do a customized website in a very short time showing whatever film locations you might be interested in. And we're always updating our library. We're sending scouts out to take pictures every year, so if someone calls at 4:55 p.m. on a Friday and says they need particular locations and they're looking at Yukon, within half an hour we can have something down in L.A.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you. A producer is in town right now working on Anash and the Legacy of the Sun Rock, and actually has 10 different funders in that production. I think it's a challenge for producers in Canada to go to so many different organizations to get public money in order to film their project.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, I do.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I haven't told her.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think more and more film is having an impact on tourism. You see that all around the world. You see it in New Zealand and in Europe, with some of the feature films. The interesting thing is that it doesn't have to be a commercial; it can be a film project that happens to take place in a particular jurisdiction.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, there's always that tourism factor. We need something like the The DaVinci Code, where everybody comes to the Yukon to see the sets after the film is done.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  From the film and sound perspective, I do have some numbers here. The largest film in recent years to be filmed here was called The Big White. It was a Hollywood picture with Robin Williams. That film shoot employed 200 Yukoners. We have a live action animation series called Anash and the Legacy of the Sun-Rock.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Absolutely, yes. There have been lots of spinoffs, particularly if there's a big production here. There are equipment rentals, hotels, restaurants, venue rentals. It spins out into the community very nicely. So if someone comes from another part of Canada, or another part of the world, like the BBC in Britain, they employ Yukoners, and they leave a lot of money behind.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think we have worked well with the federal government in terms of some of your northern economic development programs. The ones that have been successful for us—the mise en scène workshop program for film crews being a good example of that—have been where we've worked with our industry organizations and with the members of those industry organizations on the ground to identify what their hopes, dreams, and aspirations are and where they think government can step in and support them in the development of their career, and then we've had an opportunity to work with INAC and decide how it can support, how we can support, and allow there to be as much grassroots flexibility as possible in the rollout of the program.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Good evening. Thank you for inviting me. The Film and Sound Commission is a branch of the Department of Economic Development of the Yukon government. We cover three general areas in our mandate: we support musicians and the development of the music industry in the Yukon; we support filmmakers who are taking on a managerial and ownership role in a film product--directors, producers, and writers; and we also market the Yukon as a film location for production servicing, and, directly relevant to that, we develop the crew base in the Yukon.