Canadian Heritage committee  Sure. As much as the industry is growing and as much as it has a very high compound annual growth rate, folks like Mr. Acosta are providing enough talent for us to actually keep up with demand. That will not be there for much longer. In fact, I think, depending on where the stud

Canadian Heritage committee  Sure, the imagination is a big deal, but that's sort of the case for any business. You want to build creative products and you want to innovate and do different things. The thing that holds us back is the same thing that holds every industry back, and that is that we need inves

Canadian Heritage committee  Because the move is to mobile and social—which has a 19% CAGR as opposed to a 6% or 7% CAGR for console games—the skill gap is actually in these different kinds of games and how you monetize and create those. I'm sorry I went over.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes. As with anything, the more we're taxed, the less we can do to grow. We'd have to put a lot more into our overheads and do a lot more safeguarding as to how we grow out. The natural answer is yes, for sure. Again, as I said earlier, we don't see that incentives actually dri

Canadian Heritage committee  Sure. As I said earlier, there is an enormous level of talent coming through the colleges in Canada, in all parts of the creative and technical aspects that are there for video games. As Victor said earlier, video games are a weird art, and I guess there's some debate as to whet

Canadian Heritage committee  If I'm building a game, most of that building is things like art and sound and voice actors and lots of different things that are not SR and ED eligible. They are media credit eligible, but I can't do anything with that at the federal level. I need to do that provincially. I need

Canadian Heritage committee  The Media Fund itself, again, is very project-focused, and it's also very regimented as to what we can do. In a lot of cases you're in the experimental stream, which is a smaller stream of doing things.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes. Believe me, I'm not very clear on anything I say. I'm just saying if there were—

Canadian Heritage committee  If there were an annualized SR and ED-like program, and I knew I could budget for it every year and say whatever dollar I put into somebody, I got the 40¢ back from what they're doing on the media side at the federal level, that's unbelievably easy to plan for. I can plan my grow

Canadian Heritage committee  Hello. Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you all for making the mistake of inviting someone like me to this committee. I will do my best to provide you with information, but soon you will realize that was a terrible mistake on your part. I have no prepared remarks, so the good n