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Culture and Trade

CCA Bul­letin 17/08 June 4 , 2008   On May 29, 2008, I attended my first Annual Gen­eral Meet­ing of the Trade Team Canada –Cul­tural Goods and Ser­vices. It was a most inter­est­ing meet­ing, attended by senior offi­cials from the Depart­ments of Cana­dian Her­itage and For­eign Affairs and Inter­na­tional Trade, and many orga­ni­za­tions from the arts and cul­ture sector. Some inter­est­ing data were pro­vided on Canada’s cul­tural trade. In 2007, Sta­tis­tics Canada released a study on the eco­nomic...

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“Spring Cleaning” Parliamentary Update

  CCA Bul­letin 16/08 May 22, 2008   The CCA pro­vides peri­odic infor­ma­tion on mat­ters related to the fed­eral gov­ern­ment and Par­lia­ment. This update is intended to pro­vide a quick overview of some recent devel­op­ments. The links con­tained in each text will pro­vide a more detailed under­stand­ing for those who are inter­ested. This for­mat will be repeated from time to time. Your com­ments are always welcome!   Copy­right Leg­is­la­tion Soon? Ottawa is awash in rumours that the Min­is­ter...

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The Plans and Priorities of the Department of Canadian Heritage for 2008–2009

  CCA Bul­letin 15/08 May 21, 2008 Analy­sis The Plans and Pri­or­i­ties doc­u­ment runs to some 120 pages. It reflects the inten­tions of the Depart­ment to move for­ward on key areas of busi­ness and presents a very com­pre­hen­sive exam­i­na­tion of the pri­or­i­ties, pro­gram archi­tec­ture and man­age­ment struc­tures (see below, Tell me more). Gen­er­ally speak­ing, the Depart­ment con­tin­ues to embrace its key mis­sions in sup­port of the arts, cul­tur­ally diver­sity, lin­guis­tic...

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Trade Talks — From Agriculture to Culture, Let’s Make a Deal?

  CCA Bul­letin 14/08 May 8 , 2008     Just the Facts In a sur­pris­ing devel­op­ment, it would appear that inter­na­tional trade agree­ment talks through the World Trade Orga­ni­za­tion (WTO) have found a sec­ond wind. The talks, now in their sixth year, had been writ­ten off by many who felt that there was lit­tle prospect of reach­ing a deal on such con­tentious issues as agri­cul­tural sub­si­dies and tar­iffs on man­u­fac­tured goods. Why should the arts and cul­ture sec­tor care?  One of the...

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From the Desk of Alain Pineau: Cultural Policy: Next Generation A New Program From The Canadian Conference of the Arts

  CCA Bul­letin 13/08 May 1 , 2008   Just the Facts For some time, the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts has been look­ing at a project called Cul­tural Pol­icy: Next Gen­er­a­tion, which will bring together sev­eral ini­tia­tives whose goal is to train the next gen­er­a­tion of cul­tural work­ers. This project, which has three sec­tions, is part of the 2008–2011 Strate­gic Plan adopted by the CCA Board at its Novem­ber 23, 2007 meeting. The first part of this project will be the estab­lish­ment of a...

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Bill C-10: The CCA warns the Senate Banking Committee about the serious dangers to freedom of expression

  CCA Bul­letin 12/08 April 10, 2008     Just the Facts The CCA ques­tions the need for the pro­posed amend­ment to the Income Tax Act included in Bill C-10 con­cern­ing tax cred­its sup­port­ing the pro­duc­tion of tele­vi­sion pro­grams and movies and warns the Com­mit­tee mem­bers of the real dan­gers for free­dom of expres­sion if the amend­ment is adopted as it stands. The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) appeared yes­ter­day in front of the Sen­ate Com­mit­tee on Bank­ing Trade, and...

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The Canadian Conference of the Arts welcomes its 2008–2011 Board of Governors

CCA Bul­letin 11/08 March 26, 2008     Just the facts The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) is proud to announce the com­po­si­tion of its 2008–2011 Board of Gov­er­nors. Fur­ther to the elec­tion process which took place in the sec­ond half of Feb­ru­ary and to the March 20th meet­ing of the cur­rent Board, the new Board of Gov­er­nors will be com­prised of:   Liz Bar­ron – Win­nipeg, Manitoba Arts con­sul­tant Michel Beau­chemin – Mon­treal, Quebec Exec­u­tive Sec­re­tary,...

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From Economy to Ecology – A Policy Framework for Creative Labour

  CCA Bul­letin 10/08 March 14, 2008     Just the Facts The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) has released the report “From Econ­omy to Ecol­ogy: A Pol­icy Frame­work for Cre­ative Labour”. The doc­u­ment is a com­pre­hen­sive exam­i­na­tion of the cre­ative econ­omy con­cept and more par­tic­u­larly of how the cur­rent labour pol­icy frame­work should adapt to the real­i­ties of cre­ative professionals. The report reflects a broad range of approaches to the cre­ative econ­omy in a...

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Is the C-10 Controversy Necessary?

  CCA Bul­letin 09/08 March 11, 2008     Just the Facts Over the past sev­eral days, the con­tro­versy over the fed­eral government’s bill C-10 con­tin­ued to make head­lines and edi­to­r­ial pages all over the country. The leg­is­la­tion in ques­tion is enti­tled, “An Act to amend the Income Tax Act includ­ing amend­ments in rela­tion for­eign invest­ment enti­ties and on-resident trusts, and to pro­vide for the bijural expres­sion of the pro­vi­sions of the Act.”    (the Act). This Act is...

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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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