CCA Bulletin 17/11- Federal Election 2011: Public Cultural Investments under Canada’s 40th Parliament

In 2008, the CCA published a bulletin analyzing the investments made under Canada’s 39th Parliament in the arts, culture and heritage sector. In order to give you a broad perspective, we used several years’ worth of budget analyses to explain funding to the sector. In today’s bulletin, we will aim to do the same thing. By using funding figures from the Department of Heritage, its agencies and programs, we will break down themes surrounding cultural spending under Canada’s 40th Parliament. In this bulletin, we will also outline how funding to Canadian institutions and cultural programs, along with government processes such as Strategic Reviews, have impacted the overall cultural budget of the federal government.

In this analysis, the numbers end with the 2010/11 federal budget as that was the last budget that passed under the 40th Parliament. Though a 2011/12 federal budget was tabled in March 2011, the budget died on the order paper once the writ was dropped and the current general federal election was called. For that reason, we have not included the 2011/12 estimates. (more)