I haven't posted in a while... But I was reading about the provincial Liberal's Arts funding cuts last night and got really into it.
Our provincial government could not be more manipulative. Cover-ups, spin, and 180 degre about faces on promises are the norm. They could care less about the truth. As long as voters are prevented from accessing real information and we forget about what they have done by the time we cast our votes in the next election. The sad part is their strategy will probably work.
The B.C. Ministry of Tourism, Culture and the Arts has removed all links to a report on the socio-economic impact of arts and cultural organizations from its website.
The report, Socio-Economic Impacts of Arts and Cultural Organizations in B.C; written in 2006 by G.S. Sandhu and Associates, was commissioned by what was then the Ministry of Tourism, Sports and the Arts.
Among its findings was that in return for spending $9,569,009 in grants to 300 arts and cultural organizations through the B.C. Arts Council, the government received $10,040,674 to $13,008,696 in provincial taxes—a figure often referred to by arts supporters as: every dollar invested in the arts generates between $1.05 and $1.36 in provincial tax revenues.
The study also found that for every dollar of initial expenditure, additional spending in the range of $0.57 and $0.87 was generated in the B.C. economy; and that for every direct job in the arts and cultural sector of B.C. between 1.32 and 1.52 jobs were created in the whole economy.
A ministry spokesperson confirmed that the report was removed approximately nine months ago from the government website.
Even though it no longer appears on the ministry website, a cached version of the Sandhu report is currently available online here:
http://www.tca.gov.bc.ca/arts_culture/docs/dec2006_socio_economic_impacts.pdf
Our provincial government could not be more manipulative. Cover-ups, spin, and 180 degre about faces on promises are the norm. They could care less about the truth. As long as voters are prevented from accessing real information and we forget about what they have done by the time we cast our votes in the next election. The sad part is their strategy will probably work.
The B.C. Ministry of Tourism, Culture and the Arts has removed all links to a report on the socio-economic impact of arts and cultural organizations from its website.
The report, Socio-Economic Impacts of Arts and Cultural Organizations in B.C; written in 2006 by G.S. Sandhu and Associates, was commissioned by what was then the Ministry of Tourism, Sports and the Arts.
Among its findings was that in return for spending $9,569,009 in grants to 300 arts and cultural organizations through the B.C. Arts Council, the government received $10,040,674 to $13,008,696 in provincial taxes—a figure often referred to by arts supporters as: every dollar invested in the arts generates between $1.05 and $1.36 in provincial tax revenues.
The study also found that for every dollar of initial expenditure, additional spending in the range of $0.57 and $0.87 was generated in the B.C. economy; and that for every direct job in the arts and cultural sector of B.C. between 1.32 and 1.52 jobs were created in the whole economy.
A ministry spokesperson confirmed that the report was removed approximately nine months ago from the government website.
Even though it no longer appears on the ministry website, a cached version of the Sandhu report is currently available online here:
http://www.tca.gov.bc.ca/arts_culture/docs/dec2006_socio_economic_impacts.pdf
