I agreed with most of what you said regarding the potential silver lining in a higher dollar, except for the last paragraph (Playback, Nov. 8, p. 14). I see the potential for a slightly different and darker picture.

In the May 4 editorial, Playback editor Samantha Yaffe expressed confidence that Canada is and will remain the first choice for location shooting, despite attempts by a U.S. coalition to combat production incentives. While I also believe that Canada continues to be at the forefront of location choices for U.S.-based producers, having just returned from Los Angeles and a series of meetings with various producers, financiers and distributors, my optimism is slightly more guarded. On more than one occasion in these meetings certain issues were raised which led me to believe that notwithstanding any anti-runaway production lobby, we may be losing productions that would otherwise have come to Canada.