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It’s like a cliché out of a bad movie. In the early 1990s, when Carolle Brabant was an auditor at Telefilm Canada, she visited a Vancouver production company that was, shall we say, less than enthusiastic about her visit.

“It was winter, January,” Telefilm’s executive director recalled on Monday afternoon, sitting in the Old Montreal office that would be hers for just 48 hours more. “They put me in a room with a broken window. So the wind was coming in. I had to put things on my papers so they didn’t blow away.”

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Brabant, tellingly, didn’t get discouraged; she seized the opportunity.

“I think that, from the beginning, what allowed me to advance as an auditor and to help me understand the objectives of my job is that I was able to sit down with producers and with people internally and listen to them, to see what their preoccupations were, to exchange with them, see how I could help them and how we could work together.”