From Globe and Mail (via GamePolitics):

The so-called “creative industries” in Canada have been prone to grousing that governments at all levels have failed to sufficiently recognize and support their activities.

But at least one government seems to “get it,” and that’s Ontario’s, which likes to tout that “creativity-oriented jobs” now make up 30 per cent of Ontario’s employed labour force, the third highest in North America, after California and New York.

On Thursday, the province’s minister of culture, Aileen Carroll, is announcing an investment of $10-million in something called the Intellectual Property Development Fund. It’s a one-year pilot program, retroactive to April 1 of this year, that reimburses Ontario “screen-based companies” for expenses they incur in getting a feature film, TV series, video game, “webisode” or Internet property off the ground.

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