Canadian Heritage committee  Our main recommendations are to create a fund to help producers in the regions working in minority situations. The fund could be managed by the Official Languages Secretariat or by Telefilm Canada, which would be required to give these funds to francophone producers to develop th

Canadian Heritage committee  We're talking about $700,000 a year. That would be enough to make one or two feature-length films. Telefilm Canada has what we call the micro-budget program, which makes it possible to make feature-length films at a cost of up to $2.5 million. So one or two could be made a year.

Canadian Heritage committee  It is a new request that I am making to the committee.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Hi, everybody. I'm going to speak in French, but I understand English pretty well. I represent the Alliance des producteurs francophones du Canada, which has 24 members who are producers. These producers all work in French in areas where it is a minority l