Canadian Heritage committee  If you could speak to Cineplex and find a way to make it work, I think it's a great idea.

Canadian Heritage committee  One of the funding sources—not tax credits—is Telefilm Canada, which funds a lot of movies over the course of the year. You could perhaps look at some of the rules and regulations of Telefilm and some of the metrics for success on how they advance money.

Canadian Heritage committee  That's a very good question. Pompeii, as an example, was a co-production, which I think indicative of most of the larger-budget Canadian movies that are shot in Canada. It was a treaty co-production with Germany. The reason you're able to have these larger budgets on co-productio

Canadian Heritage committee  I think it's probably high enough, but it takes too long to get.

Canadian Heritage committee  Other jurisdictions have adopted various methods. Some jurisdictions don't wait for an audit. Part of the timing here is that you need an audit, and that audit has to be completed after all the expenses are made. I'm not necessarily supporting that there be no audit, but perhap

Canadian Heritage committee  We're talking about the grind on the credit?

Canadian Heritage committee  It's a problem for producers, because they're the ones who are losing out. I think the question is—if I were to take the other side of the equation and say as Lui said—is it consistent with industries across the board? If you're looking at applying a sort of policy to this indust

Canadian Heritage committee  Sure. I think Mr. Petrollini alluded to this, but one of the things—and this is a bigger policy question—is maybe relooking at the rules around what Canadian content is. This is something that was in the last policy review 10 years ago. The point I'd like to make is that if you

Canadian Heritage committee  First of all, thank you for inviting me to be a witness at this committee. I don't have a very long statement, although, if you want, I could speak for hours, but I'll keep it brief. I think the review is timely and very important in the current environment. What you will find o