[referring to the French games industry downturn from 2000 through 2005]
"...we've been hit by the distortion of competition - primarily from Canada, from Montreal, which as you know is a French-speaking province. The fact that they created a tax credit worth almost 50 per cent, this has had a big impact in France, and a lot of our creators, developers and programmers went to Canada, so I think we lost more than half of the community to Montreal in those days."
He later goes on to say that France's institution of a similar - but smaller - system helped stem the bleeding.
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"...primarily from Canada, from Montreal, which as you know is a French-speaking province."
I didn't know Montreal was a province!
Ha! I must have been tired when I wrote that! Not only was I wrong (Quebec is the province of course), but I should know better as it's my home town!!
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