Tories re-announce budget measures
Thursday, June 9th, 2011The majority Conservative government announced stable funding of $100 million per year for the Canada Media Fund (CMF) in its federal budget Monday. The funding was also announced in the minority Conservative government’s budget in March, which did not pass due to an election forced by the opposition parties. The budget released Monday, a rehashing of [...]
Canada culture anxiety
Monday, May 9th, 2011Conservatives could cut film, TV fundng By Brendan Kelly The election of the first majority Conservative government in Canada in more than 20 years has some industryites concerned it will cut funding for TV, film and the arts. Before the election the Conservatives, then a minority in the government, said that they intended to institute [...]
CBC funding secure, heritage minister says
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011Conservative Heritage Minister James Moore says his government believes in the CBC as a key cultural institution and has no plans to cut its funding following his party’s recent electoral victory. “We believe in the national public broadcaster. We have said that we will maintain or increase support for the CBC. That is our platform [...]
Harper to move fast to use his new authority
Monday, May 2nd, 2011STEVEN CHASE, Calgary— Globe and Mail Update It’s been seven years since a party had a majority of seats in the Commons, and Stephen Harper will put this new-found authority to immediate use. A majority government not only cements Mr. Harper’s leadership within the Conservative Party but it gives him four years to pursue his [...]
Where does Moore stand on funding for CBC?
Monday, May 2nd, 2011COQUITLAM NOW, April 27, 2011 Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro, parliamentary secretary to James Moore, minister of Canadian heritage, publicly pondered about cutting all funding to the CBC. His words were: “Maybe it’s time we get out of the broadcasting business … the $1.1 billion, plus a whole bunch of other stuff that we’re investing [...]
Look to budget for government policy on CBC funding, Moore says
Thursday, February 17th, 2011By Karen Fournier OTTAWA—The Conservative government will make its policy clear on multi-year funding for the CBC in the upcoming federal budget, Heritage Minister James Moore told the House heritage committee Wednesday. “I understand the concern, I understand the needs, I understand the request and … You’ll see the politics and the policy of the [...]
Moore says ‘wait for budget’ on CBC funding
Wednesday, February 16th, 2011Heritage Minister James Moore refused to give details about CBC’s funding allocation for coming years when he appeared before the Commons heritage committee on Wednesday. CBC president Hubert Lacroix spoke to the committee last week about the difficulty in planning when $60 million of the public broadcaster’s annual budget is up for review every year. [...]