2010 Federal Budget
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
Today, as the third session of Canada's 40th Parliament is launched with the Speech from the Throne, participate in an online discussion!
The CCA will publish bulletins analyzing how the Speech from the Throne and how the 2010 Federal Budget will impact arts and culture in Canada. Specifically, we will look at new funding initiatives for arts and culture, spending on cultural infrastructure, promotion of arts abroad, and development of new audiences.
We also hope to see plans to implement a digital strategy, new copyright legislation, and other innovative steps in the realms of telecommunications and taxation.
Over the next couple of days, and the following weeks look out for our evaluation of the Main Estimates, and the impact of deficit reduction on the Department of Canadian Heritage and other cultural agencies. We will also be keeping a watchful eye on how federal deficit reduction will be compounded by steps taken by provinces.
We hope this post will be the first in creating a dialogue about this new session of Canada's 40th Parliament. Use this thread to post comments, questions, links, and anything those interested in the arts would like to learn!
The CCA will publish bulletins analyzing how the Speech from the Throne and how the 2010 Federal Budget will impact arts and culture in Canada. Specifically, we will look at new funding initiatives for arts and culture, spending on cultural infrastructure, promotion of arts abroad, and development of new audiences.
We also hope to see plans to implement a digital strategy, new copyright legislation, and other innovative steps in the realms of telecommunications and taxation.
Over the next couple of days, and the following weeks look out for our evaluation of the Main Estimates, and the impact of deficit reduction on the Department of Canadian Heritage and other cultural agencies. We will also be keeping a watchful eye on how federal deficit reduction will be compounded by steps taken by provinces.
We hope this post will be the first in creating a dialogue about this new session of Canada's 40th Parliament. Use this thread to post comments, questions, links, and anything those interested in the arts would like to learn!
posted by Canadian Conference of the Arts / Conférence canadienne des arts at 1:04 p.m.
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Check out the Main Estimates to help understand the roll-out of grants, contributions, programs, and funding to agencies.
This link will take you to the Mains on the Treasury Board site:
http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/est-pre/20102011/me-bpd/docs/index-eng.pdf
http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/est-pre/20102011/me-bpd/docs/index-fra.pdf
Thanks for your budget review in the CCA bulletin. This part sort of jumped off the page: "In the 2010-2011 Main Estimates, we see that Operating Expenditures for the Department of Canadian Heritage have gone from $265,654,000 in 2009-2010 to $216,811,000 in 2010-2011... grants and contributions went from $959,770,000 in 2009-2010 to $901,281,000 in 2010-2011." How do these numbers compare with other departments? $50 of $250 million is 20%. Is that what you're saying, a 20% cut to operations at DCH? Ouch!
Hi Robert
Thanks for posting! I think it's important that included in the Budget was a pretty strong caveat that "the Estimates here do not take into account measures announced in Budget 2010 or expected adjustments to fund cost pressures."
I think once we see the Supplementary Estimates we will have a much more in-depth understanding of how the operating and grants/contributions budgets will actually look at the Dept. of Heritage.
Jessica.
(CCA's Cultural Policy Advisor)
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