Industry committee  I'm going to answer your question instead of doing a wrap-up. My brother went to university in the United States. He happened to have been born there, as my father was there at school at the time. He ended up staying there and starting a video game company in 1990 in California

Industry committee  I think it does need to be a collaboration. To your earlier point, there are just too few seniors. It's not that we don't have people who are up to the standard that may be in the United States, or in the U.K., or what have you. We do. We just don't have the number for the fast

Industry committee  That's what I keep saying.

Industry committee  We have a very difficult time recruiting from west of our region. Obviously, under the policies, we have to do that before we can hire from outside, and we do that. It's our preference to hire Canadians. As was said, it's obviously less expensive, and it's the right thing to do,

Industry committee  There certainly was a time before I was involved in the industry when there were stories of people working those types of hours. Certainly that's not the case with our company. We would not want to burn out our employees. We operate under the labour standards acts in the province

Industry committee  Perhaps I could speak to the other disciplines. With regard to art design and programming, in Prince Edward Island, both Holland College and the University of Prince Edward Island have developed a curriculum for video game development. Many of the modules are taught by industry

Industry committee  Yes, I just want to make it clear. Our company, for example, has made in the last five or six years probably 50 games. We have never needed to hire an actor, ever—

Industry committee  -—because we operate in different spaces. These are AAA titles. This is one aspect of the video game industry. There are dozens and dozens and hundreds of companies that would never use this particular type of talent. Although it is very important for companies like Ubisoft and E

Industry committee  Performance.

Industry committee  May I?

Industry committee  I think to some degree it depends on the region of the country where you're operating. It depends on the size of the company that you're working for. It sounds to me like a lot of the work that these people are doing is with the very large companies in Montreal, which is not the

Industry committee  Different traits, yes.

Industry committee  Hello. I'm delighted to support Serge today as a member of the board of the Canadian Interactive Alliance representing Newfoundland and Labrador. I'm studio head and part owner of Other Ocean Group Canada Limited, which operates a video game development studio in Newfoundland and