Canadian Heritage committee  Canada fought hard to exempt the cultural industries in the recent renegotiation of NAFTA, now the USMCA. Prime Minister Trudeau said that waiving the exemption for cultural industries would be tantamount to giving up Canadian sovereignty and identity. The exemption preserves an

Industry committee  Perhaps I could just leap in, because we do agree on something here. That is, generally speaking, producers agree with our friends at Music Canada and the sound recording industry that this would be an expansion of copyright and a potential source of remuneration, good remunerati

Industry committee  When the pie gets bigger, the negotiations get easier.

Industry committee  From the producers' perspective, we're neutral on that. If the licensees of the broadcasters need to pay a small fraction of their revenues—

Industry committee  We are generally supportive of stronger copyright, with our friends.

Industry committee  Perhaps I can jump in here. It's really governed by some very good and effective collective bargaining. ACTRA, the Writers Guild, and the Directors Guild all have extensive meetings. I've been in some of those meetings. You do not want to be part of the extended meetings well in

Industry committee  Our financiers and our distributors want to deal with the copyright owner. The producer is the one who has taken the initial economic risk. It was colourful, Maureen, what you said about going downstairs in your dressing gown and writing a script, but years before that, the pro

Industry committee  If I can say, and I don't want to overstep my bounds here. There are different numbers of scan rates and line rates in European television sets—

Industry committee  Yes, which require different encoding for DVDs in the zone 2 regions from the zone 1 regions, is my understanding.

Industry committee  Clearly, I think all of us would say that we would love one single standard. That would be the ideal.

Industry committee  It doesn't make any commercial sense to me. I would think that people would be quite happy to sell in either territory and have a single standard.

Industry committee  I certainly am positive about Netflix because that's where Degrassi is broadcast now. Spotify, yes, has two methods of streaming, one of which incurs the value gap that has been talked about before. I do want to say, though, that we have had some progress, and I think you've put

Industry committee  Television and filmmaking are a collaborative endeavour. The producers bring together all the creative elements to move a project from concept to screen. We producers hire and work closely with all the creative work. We love our screenwriters. Over the years we've hired dozens o