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Industry committee No, just to thank the committee for all your excellent questions and this important study, because it's a very important industry to our members and to so many Canadians, and there's a lot of potential. It's great to see this study taking place.
March 3rd, 2014Committee meeting
Marit Stiles
Industry committee Did I say four? I thought I said three, but I'll double-check. I'm familiar with B.C., Ontario, and Quebec. I don't know whether there's another province. Do you know, Simon? I can double-check that for you and get back.
March 3rd, 2014Committee meeting
Marit Stiles
Industry committee Did you say labour mobility?
March 3rd, 2014Committee meeting
Marit Stiles
Industry committee It generally is. It's true that when you have a labour-based tax credit that is based completely on residency, it could be an issue, but generally speaking, that's not on 100% of labour, so I don't think it actually means—
March 3rd, 2014Committee meeting
Marit Stiles
Industry committee We're not the full-time employees.
March 3rd, 2014Committee meeting
Marit Stiles
Industry committee Yes. I mean we certainly continue to work with the provinces, but as in the film and television industry, the federal government can implement tax incentive programs as well. What we've seen happen, of course, is that competition arises among the provinces. What we'd like is to s
March 3rd, 2014Committee meeting
Marit Stiles
Industry committee If we're going to talk more broadly for a moment, one of the things we've been looking for is that the CRTC get interested and involved in over-the-top broadcast. Right now we have no way to ensure that a percentage of the revenues generated by the kind of online content that is
March 3rd, 2014Committee meeting
Marit Stiles
Industry committee I think there is a difference in terms of what we're referring to.
March 3rd, 2014Committee meeting
Marit Stiles
Industry committee They are speaking very specifically, if I may, as you mentioned earlier, about the development side, design. We are talking very specifically about performance. We know that in our world of performers, we have a lot of performers who have—
March 3rd, 2014Committee meeting
Marit Stiles
Industry committee I think we do, and to Simon's point—
March 3rd, 2014Committee meeting
Marit Stiles
Industry committee —to do the performance, which is very different. We have a large pool of talent, and they're becoming more trained and more familiar with work in this area with this particular expertise. But we do need more emphasis, more funding for training programs that will train them to do
March 3rd, 2014Committee meeting
Marit Stiles
Industry committee Yes, absolutely. Most of our members, as Simon was indicating, have a kind of lumpy income. There are good years and there are very poor years. I'm sure many of you have met performers, very big stars who will surprise you by telling you that they can have very lean years when th
March 3rd, 2014Committee meeting
Marit Stiles
Industry committee Like the film and television industry, it's an international industry. We have to be globally competitive, which is why I think we're all talking about tax credits, tax incentives.
March 3rd, 2014Committee meeting
Marit Stiles
Industry committee Because other jurisdictions offer similar incentives. Like the film and television industry, which we're very familiar with because many of our members also are employed in the film and television industry largely, having those incentives in place makes us competitive with every
March 3rd, 2014Committee meeting
Marit Stiles
Industry committee Thanks, Simon. This committee asked how the industry continues to be a model for growth and technological innovation, commercial success, and the creation of highly skilled jobs. According to the Nordicity report commissioned by the Entertainment Software Association of Canad
March 3rd, 2014Committee meeting
Marit Stiles