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The Federal Government Releases the 2008-09 Main Estimates

  CCA Bul­letin 08/08 March 4, 2008       Just the Facts The fed­eral gov­ern­ment has released its Main Spend­ing Esti­mates fol­low­ing the pre­sen­ta­tion of the 2008-09 fed­eral bud­get by the Hon. James Fla­herty, Min­is­ter of Finance, on Feb­ru­ary 26, 2008. The release of the Main Esti­mates, fol­low­ing the fed­eral bud­get, is a wel­come return to the tra­di­tional man­ner in which the Main Esti­mates are pre­sented. In recent years the gov­ern­ment has released the Main Esti­mates...

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The cultural sector presents its views to the Federal Competition Review Panel

  CCA Bul­letin 07/08 March 3 , 2008       Just the facts Last week, the CCA joined 13 rep­re­sen­ta­tives of cul­tural indus­try orga­ni­za­tions from Mon­tréal and Toronto in a three-and-a-half-hour in cam­era con­sul­ta­tion ses­sion with mem­bers of the Com­pe­ti­tion Pol­icy Review Panel.The Panel was appointed in July 2007 by the fed­eral Min­is­ters of Indus­try and Finance to exam­ine, amongst oth­ers, the exist­ing leg­is­la­tions and restric­tions affect­ing for­eign invest­ment ...

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Follow-ups to Symposium on the Role of the Arts in Public Diplomacy

CCA Bul­letin 06/08 Feb­ru­ary 29, 2008       Just the Facts   The CCA is releas­ing the sum­mary of pro­ceed­ings from the Sym­po­sium on the Role of the Arts in Pub­lic Diplo­macy that was held on Novem­ber 22, 2007 in Mon­treal. The back­ground paper pre­pared by Rachael Maxwell has also been posted on the CCA web­site and the record­ing of the Sym­po­sium pro­ceed­ings is avail­able upon request. Fol­low­ing the Sym­po­sium, the CCA has gath­ered Cana­dian and for­eign cul­tural diplo­macy...

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The 2008-09 Federal Budget: Much Ado about Nothing

CCA Bul­letin 05/08 Feb­ru­ary 27, 2008     Just the Facts The chal­lenge that the Min­is­ter of Finance, the Hon. James Fla­herty, grap­pled with in his third bud­get was how to build in mea­sures to advance the government’s pri­or­i­ties while leav­ing some maneu­ver­ing room to deal with any spill-over from Amer­i­can eco­nomic woes. To do this, the Min­is­ter opted for a pru­dent amount of new spend­ing and a sim­i­lar econ­omy with the Bud­get Speech itself, which was among the short­est in...

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Minister of Canadian Heritage Introduces Legislation to Create New National Museum

CCA Bul­letin 04/08 Feb­ru­ary 14, 2008       Just the Facts On Feb­ru­ary 11, 2008, the Min­is­ter of Cana­dian Her­itage, the Hon. Josée Verner, tabled Bill C-42, an Act to amend the Muse­ums Act and to make con­se­quen­tial amend­ments to other Acts. The sub­ject of this leg­is­la­tion is the cre­ation of a new national museum, the Cana­dian Museum for Human Rights, located in Win­nipeg, Manitoba. The Museum for Human Rights is a private/public part­ner­ship spear­headed by the late Izzy Asper and...

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FROM THE DESK of Alain Pineau: Chalmers Mini-Conference by John Holden, Head of Culture for the Influential British think tank DEMOS

CCA Bul­letin 03/08   Feb­ru­ary 11, 2008 Just The Facts On Thurs­day Jan­u­ary 31, the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts, with the gen­er­ous sup­port of the Canada Coun­cil for the Arts, pre­sented a pub­lic lec­ture by John Holden, Head of Cul­ture for the influ­en­tial British think tank DEMOS. This event was held at the Uni­ver­sity of Ottawa. Mr. Holden gave a detailed pre­sen­ta­tion on what he calls the “cul­tural sys­tem”, i.e. the frame­work in which var­i­ous stake­hold­ers in the...

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Parliament Returns – What to Expect From the Spring Session

CCA BULLETIN 2/08 Jan­u­ary 28, 2008   Just the Facts Par­lia­men­tar­i­ans are back in Ottawa sig­nal­ing the end of their Christ­mas Break. Just before they packed up for their rid­ings, the Min­is­ter of Indus­try, the Hon. James Pren­tice decided to take another look at the pack­age of revi­sions to the Copy­right Act which was to tabled in the House before the recess. Fol­low­ing an appar­ently unex­pected strong pub­lic inter­est in the ques­tion, the Min­is­ter decided to take the pack­age of...

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CCA to Competition Policy Review Panel: Foreign Ownership Restrictions Vital for Canadian Cultural Expression

CCA Bul­letin 1/08  Jan­u­ary 14, 2008   Just the Facts The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) has sub­mit­ted its views on the future of for­eign own­er­ship restric­tions in broad­cast­ing and the cul­tural indus­tries. It has reminded the Com­pe­ti­tion Pol­icy Review Panel set up by the fed­eral Min­is­ter of Indus­try that the cur­rent rules have been specif­i­cally designed to cre­ate a space for the cre­ation and dis­tri­b­u­tion of Cana­dian cul­tural expres­sion in these...

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CCA Appears in Standing Committee on Finance Pre-budget Hearings

  CCA Bul­letin 39/07 Decem­ber 10, 2007 Just the Facts CCA National Direc­tor Alain Pineau appeared before the Stand­ing Com­mit­tee on Finance on Fri­day Decem­ber 7 as part of the Committee’s pre-budget con­sul­ta­tions. The meet­ing, held in Mon­treal, was the last one in this year’s process. The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) thanked the gov­ern­ment for a series of invest­ments in the cul­tural sec­tor that included;   a $ 30 mil­lion increase to the base bud­get of the Canada...

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A Closer Look at Supplementary Estimates A — Federal Fiscal Watch

  CCA Bul­letin 37/07 Decem­ber 4, 2007   Just the Facts As reported by the CCA , the fed­eral gov­ern­ment has tabled Sup­ple­men­tary Esti­mates A announc­ing a total of $13.6 bil­lion work of sup­ple­men­tary expen­di­tures of which $8 bil­lion were voted appro­pri­a­tions ( i.e. dis­cre­tionary spend­ing pro­grams) and $5.5 bil­lion were changes to statu­tory bud­get spend­ing ( trans­fer pay­ments, employ­ment insur­ance, pen­sions etc.) The Sup­ple­men­tary Esti­mates A allow us to...

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