Canadian Heritage committee  We revisit our program budget allocation on an annual basis, so it's something that may change again as of April of next year. As to the creation of separate funds or separate funding mechanisms, tax credits and other means have been discussed so far in this committee. We may h

Canadian Heritage committee  Well, first, I'd just like to point out that, as we said in our presentation, we support games through both streams, both convergent and experimental. On the convergent side, it'll be more like casual games and social games that accompany the television properties that we also fu

Canadian Heritage committee  We do to a certain extent. What we have found, especially after running the program for a few years and the research that we've conducted, is that there is a need for us to work hand in hand with the venture capital sector. That's something we've done starting this year. We're tr

Canadian Heritage committee  Let me start with this. The CMF, for a number of years now, has documented the support of the projects it funds in terms of audiences, critical acclaim, and international sales. We've been doing this for a number of years on the television front using the standard in the industry

Canadian Heritage committee  That's something we just started this year.

Canadian Heritage committee  The digital media performance framework has to do with measuring audiences for the content we support. That's an entirely different thing.

Canadian Heritage committee  Given that the program is designed to support innovation and projects that might be of a riskier nature, less of a commercial nature at first blush, the amount of funding that CMF provides can be up to 75% of eligible expenses, up to a maximum of a million dollars per project. We

Canadian Heritage committee  As I said, it's innovation in terms of the content itself—new narrative approaches—either in terms of technology that is being developed or in terms of business models. For example, if someone has come in with a franchise game and they're doing an update, something like that prob

Canadian Heritage committee  Through the experimental stream, the CMF encourages the creation of leading-edge, interactive digital media content and software applications. The primary objective of this program is to drive innovation in terms of content, technology, or business models. Funding is allocated us

Canadian Heritage committee  Mr. Chairman, committee members, thank you for inviting us to appear before you today. Mr. Chair, in closing, we in the TCS believe that there is no question that the growth of the entertainment software industry has helped to invigorate the economy economic health and dynamism

Canadian Heritage committee  On the first round?

Canadian Heritage committee  There were 12 projects out of 27 at the production stage. I do not have the results yet on the second round, given that it ended on November 12.

Canadian Heritage committee  It's too soon for that because we provide the funding ahead of time, so they're going to go into production with the funding that we've provided.

Canadian Heritage committee  Specifically, it wasn't based on their viability. Although we do provide equity investments and we are hoping to gain recuperated revenue from the projects we invest in, the focus in the experimental stream, as I mentioned, is on innovation. So the projects were chosen based on t

Canadian Heritage committee  Out of the 27?