Special Budget Edition

Mes­sage from the President

The Pres­i­dent of the CCA’s Board of Direc­tors, Kath­leen Sharpe, dis­cusses the CCA’s vision mov­ing forward.

Editor’s note

Spe­cial Bud­get Edi­tion: A First Look at the Fed­eral Budget

We are very proud to present this spe­cial fed­eral bud­get edi­tion. Our in depth bud­get analy­sis will be pub­lished in a few weeks when the Her­itage Min­is­ter pub­lishes the esti­mates and report on plans and pri­or­i­ties. Nor­mally the gov­ern­ment announces the plans and pri­or­i­ties before the fed­eral bud­get drops, but not this year. Spe­cific impacts are begin­ning to emerge as to which pro­grams are being main­tained, but there is no guar­an­tee that pri­or­i­ties will remain the same. Sev­eral signs are already vis­i­ble; oth­ers will accu­mu­late over the weeks and months.

CCA Spot­light

Our Spe­cial Bud­get Edi­tion includes analy­sis of the deci­sions around the sec­tor. Fol­low the links to learn more about the impacts on indi­vid­ual orga­ni­za­tions and agencies.

• CBC: The Cuts Expected by All 
• Canada Coun­cil for the Arts
• National Muse­ums Saved 
• The National Film Board 
• National Arts Center
• Tele­film Canada: The Impacts Remain Dif­fi­cult to Evaluate

We also have a spe­cial look at the cuts that are cur­rently hap­pen­ing around the EU from Barbora Pola­chova, who is a stu­dent in the Czech Repub­lic who worked for the CCA in the con­text of an intern­ship project with the Euro­pean Union. The Real­i­ties of the Eco­nomic Cri­sis in the EU – What are the Impacts for the Cul­tural Sector?

Imag­ine Canada has pub­lished a release dis­cussing the impacts of the bud­get on reg­is­tered char­i­ties. Changes announced in bud­get included new require­ments for report­ing polit­i­cal activ­ity to increase trans­parency. The CCA will keep you informed of the impacts of the changes for char­i­ties as more infor­ma­tion becomes available.