CCA Bulletin 15/11 - Federal Election 2011 – The party platforms : what about culture?
Friday, April 15, 2011
The Canadian Conference of the Arts (CCA) has taken the platforms available from the five major federal political parties and broken them down for you. Below, you will find all pertinent elements of the party platforms divided into different priorities identified by the CCA. These priorities are areas of focus for the arts, culture and heritage sector in terms of public investments in culture, cultural policies, regulation and taxation. We have not edited any elements of the platforms: we have simply divided them into relevant categories. We also have not omitted information in any of the sections below. Empty columns indicate that we did not find any relevant information on that particular topic in the party’s platform. As a final note, with regards to the Bloc Québécois’ platform, we ourselves completed the French to English translation.
Next week, we will complete our analysis of the political parties’ platforms from the cultural perspective by publishing their responses to the questionnaires we sent them on April 5.
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Labels: Election 2011
posted by Canadian Conference of the Arts / Conférence canadienne des arts at 12:31 p.m.
2 Comments:
Thanks for this revealing compilation of the major parties' platforms on arts & culture. I notice that the platforms focus on the arts and little or not at all on culture. Is this possibly a function of the method of your (CCA's) research of the platforms or is it that there was simply little to find on culture? Also, just as the Greens were left out of the CBC debates, so were all the other parties contesting this election. And they are left out of this study, as well. We artists are generally marginalized in society. We shouldn't ourselves marginalize others. I know it's extra work, but would you please extend your research to include the other parties' platforms? Like artists (and I'm sure that many members of those parties are artists), I'm sure they would be willing and pleased to be able to express themselves. At least they should be given the opportunity. Thanks
There should be some method by which those of us quite happy to complete the long form could ask that it be sent to us. What have we got to hide? Nothing!
Pity such a system does not exist as a lot of writers would be more than willing to take the time to provide that facts so essential to those who use them intelligently.
Charles Foster
Ceefos@aol.com
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