Canadian Heritage committee  There absolutely is a problem with copyright, and not only copyright but piracy as well. There is a lot of rampant stealing at the consumer level and at the developer level. But with the Internet there is a pretty sophisticated way that things get self-policed, and people are out

Canadian Heritage committee  I think there are so many interesting facets to that. I don't make video games, so I don't have the perspective that some of the other panellists do. But I can tell you that I didn't create my production company or my programming, which is purely from the heart...I just wanted to

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes. It's the Canadian Videogame Awards. I'm a co-founder of it. The next one will be the fourth annual and will be held in Vancouver on April 20, 2013. It's been growing every year, and we still have a long way to go. We're sort of in the infancy stage. One of the coolest thing

Canadian Heritage committee  There's a bunch of different ones. We're probably closest to the BAFTA Awards. There's a big film and television component in the U.K.; they also celebrate video games. There is an awards show called the D.I.C.E. Awards, in Las Vegas, which is run by the Academy of Interactive Ar

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes. I think the key thing we should take away from this meeting today is the why: Why does this matter? Why are we having this meeting? Why is this heritage? The reason we are is that Canadians are great at working together. The video game industry, probably more than any other

Canadian Heritage committee  What we are creating is heritage, absolutely. These are stories that resonate, that matter to people. I think what we should be doing is educating the consumer, educating players out there, and the developers too. Canadians are great at sublimating their pride and sort of working

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, committee members and my esteemed panel. This is a real honour to be invited to communicate with all of you. I guess I also have the honour of representing the west coast, which is kind of cool. I do host a television show that I created a lo