Canadian Heritage committee  It's also important to recognize that the kinds of projects that would necessitate bringing in professional writers are a fairly small proportion of the overall games that we're producing collectively. For a small iPhone game, as Don has alluded to, you don't necessarily need a p

Canadian Heritage committee  In some instances, that individual company will make individual choices and, therefore, will not be eligible for the tax credits for those choices.

Canadian Heritage committee  In terms of the context of the brief, it's not what I'd call more conventional or traditional core creative occupations where I'm hearing from our member companies this concern comes up. It's not all technical guys. It's not all coders and so forth. They're only 25% or 30% of our

Canadian Heritage committee  Our industry has actually always been a global one. We have never looked to our domestic marketplace as our sole market. We would not survive in this industry, because we aren't large enough. Canada is actually 2% to 3% of the global market. As a result, we've always looked abroa

Canadian Heritage committee  Certainly. Our fundamental view is that there are a lot of interdependencies and interrelations between disparate elements that come into play with the digital economy strategy. It was going to be a long and difficult process. Also, we are keen to see the strategy. That being sai

Canadian Heritage committee  We have detailed discussions about this in our recommendations. It basically breaks down to three. In our view there is a role to be played in a combination of a tax credit based funding, which is historically how many of our provinces have done it. That has the value of being

Canadian Heritage committee  To supplement that, I agree entirely. I think the problem has become particularly acute in Quebec because Quebec has a greater concentration of the larger companies than any other jurisdiction. I can assure you that our member companies that operate in Ontario and B.C. suffer fro

Canadian Heritage committee  I would certainly say that's fair. There are two components to the talent challenge that we face. One is the immediate challenge that we have at the intermediate and senior levels, where we can't find the expertise. There is a lack of domestic supply, which necessitates our so

Industry committee  Yes.

Industry committee  No, I think that's about it. Thanks.

Industry committee  Certainly on the talent development piece, I'd agree with everything that Ms. Lank has said. This is a huge issue for our industry. We have a major shortage of talent particularly in the intermediate and senior levels. We also hire a lot of junior graduates. I think 77% of our co

Industry committee  There can be, and this actually comes down to an important point, and it also dovetails with digital literacy. There's a big difference between knowing how to use a computer and knowing how to program.

Industry committee  There's a big difference between knowing how to play a game and knowing how to program a game.

Industry committee  In terms of what you said, at the junior level, certainly we've seen the volume of graduates being produced. In fact, one of the things we're trying to work on with some other associations in the IT field is to also use the games industry as a gateway. It's a good way of luring p

Industry committee  Thank you very much. I think I've largely addressed everything that came up. Just to follow up on Mr. Regan's second question, in terms of an IP crime task force, that is something we feel would be extremely helpful. As I said, there's an informal working group right now in wh