Industry committee  In my opinion, that's probably the good old days. With the changing media, I think we're going to find that television is going to be harder and harder to carve out as a niche. You can see the model already with Netflix with House of Cards, for example. That is how people want to

Industry committee  For us, I think it comes down to a policy that will help establish stability within the industry to make sure that the games companies that we already have continue to thrive, and that the small companies can grow, and we can bring more industry into Canada. From an actor's point

Industry committee  At the moment, speaking of my experience in Montreal, there are no colleges that are doing so. At ACTRA at the local union branch we've started an outreach program. We've approached such schools as the National Theatre School and Dawson College's theatre program. We're trying t

Industry committee  It is primarily, as we said, education of our own members, of getting them all up to the level where they can all walk into a sound studio tomorrow and deliver the goods straightaway in a very quick and efficient way. Other countries have programs where they are training their ow

Industry committee  The ultimate for that would be to have more games companies coming to Canada. The more games that are being produced here, the more work there will be for actors. The more of those small independent start-up companies that are doing well and succeeding and using unionized labour,

Industry committee  From the performers' perspective, it's very important that this work stay here. Many other forms of media have dropped off significantly, and the employment rates of Canadian performers in film and television have suffered greatly over the years. Video games to a large extent hav

Industry committee  For us, it's about educating our members, getting the skill set up so that we have a much larger talent pool that these companies can draw from. It is easier for them if they can work with a local talent pool. If they don't have to go offshore to do it, it's much easier. They're

Industry committee  As I talked about earlier in terms of how we can grow and develop that talent pool and the very unique skills that are required, we would welcome the opportunity to work with the government to create any training program that would develop these abilities among Canadian performer

Industry committee  Thank you, Marit. Thank you all for the opportunity to speak to you today. Over the past few years, work opportunities for Canadian performers in video games have seen tremendous growth. As Marit mentioned, we've been lending our voices to video game characters ever since Ubiso