CCA Bulletin - Cultural funding: where will the axe fall?

Just the facts

The Canadian Conference of the Arts (CCA) today presents its analysis of the 2011 federal budget, which was adopted in June by the 41st Parliament, further to the May general election.

Like last year, this year’s budget analysis reveals that overall, federal funding to the cultural sector remains stable, which has more or less been the case since 2006 under successive Conservative minority governments. While the CCA characterized this ‘holding pattern’ as reassuring last year, we projected that this state of affairs would not likely endure given the tightening fiscal situation of the government, and the conclusion of stimulus spending to address the 2008/09 recession. [more]