Canadian Heritage committee  If I could add, one of the most difficult challenges that we're faced with is the fact that these OTT services are not subject to regulation in Canada, and the Canadian broadcasters, who are their competition, are subject to regulation. That creates a very unlevel playing field,

Canadian Heritage committee  I think they did discover a loophole and I think the studios have changed their model. They used to produce a lot more films and they had enough in their pipeline to satisfy themselves. Now, as you know, there are just fewer films, lots of these huge tent-pole films, and so they

Canadian Heritage committee  It would be to recognize the intent of the policy and to come out with either policy directives—again, new legislation would be great—or, at the very least, a directive that this policy will be enforced according to its intent and the spirit of why it was brought in, not the lett

Canadian Heritage committee  We sent letters to Canadian Heritage to try to at least bring these, what we consider, violations of the policy to the attention of the ministry, and the response we got back was that it doesn't apply to the studios. We think that was the wrong interpretation of the policy becaus

Canadian Heritage committee  I gladly will.

Canadian Heritage committee  If I can touch on a—

Canadian Heritage committee  It does seem to be happening in the more recent past, I would say the last five years, where we've been seeing the major U.S. studios using this position they have as grandfathered to take advantage of these smaller independent films, and to take these films that would otherwise

Canadian Heritage committee  I cut short a bit of my remarks on that because I was going long. What we're talking about there is the fact that the policy governs the actual distribution and physical video.

Canadian Heritage committee  Not TV, not OTT, not digital.

Canadian Heritage committee  I don't have that figure. We would be happy to provide that as a follow-up to our remarks.

Canadian Heritage committee  Absolutely.

Canadian Heritage committee  On foreign companies, new foreign operations are not allowed to set up distribution in Canada. That's protected by the Investment Canada Act, but the entire policy is said to not apply to the major American studios. At the time, they tried to introduce the policy as the film im

Canadian Heritage committee  As for what we've heard back, as you know, we've made submissions to Heritage before and we've said that they're distributing non-proprietary films and shouldn't be allowed to do that. What came back was an answer, just as a blanket statement, that this policy doesn't apply to th

Canadian Heritage committee  There were fines. There were penalties that were in the film importations bill. As a policy, it doesn't have an enforcement mechanism, so we would welcome thoughts about how the policy could actually be enforced. To say that you couldn't have a provincial film distribution lice

Canadian Heritage committee  Well, it is enforced, and it's enforced on a policy level without much teeth to it, so it seems to be something that is understood. Again, it's supported by the Investment Canada Act, which doesn't allow new foreign entrants into the marketplace, so that is protected, and—