Canadian Heritage committee  First of all, just speaking of Parkdale, I've produced both of Reg Harkema's features. I think you know Reg. He is one of your residents. Second, before I get to your most recent question, I just want to go back to your initial question about broadcasting. I can't say enough that anything the government could do to repatriate or re-energize CBC, meaning English-language CBC, into feature films would be a very good way to achieve what you were asking.

Canadian Heritage committee  I'm not an expert on this sort of thing, but I would imagine that in this highly computerized era it must be possible to have safeguarded inputting programs where the kind of information we need to input for these various audits could be done once and then streamed to the various recipients who need it.

Canadian Heritage committee  You are asking a number of questions simultaneously.

Canadian Heritage committee  The answer to your question is very clear. The SRC participates in the Quebec film industry by granting licences and making investments, but the CBC is no longer doing that in English Canada.

Canadian Heritage committee  If I may also add to that, with respect to promotion and visibility within Canada, re-engaging broadcasters with feature films would also very much help with that. By far the largest forum for viewing feature films in Canada is, eventually, on the small screen. The more help we have from our broadcasters, both public and private, to help promote the existence of these Canadian feature films, the more aware Canadians will be of them.

Canadian Heritage committee  I would add to my esteemed colleagues' remarks that aside from the difficulties of procuring financing, another challenge facing the production community is access to screens, both big and small. You've had other witnesses, and we've mentioned here today, the fact that there has been a dramatic decrease in the broadcasting of Canadian feature films, especially English-language Canadian feature films, because of the ways that the big screen exhibition system works.

Canadian Heritage committee  There are effectively three main federal programs in support of the feature film industry. We have two tax credit programs, one for Canadian content and one for production services, and as already noted, the Canada feature film fund, which is administered by Telefilm Canada. On the whole, we believe these federal programs to be very successful.