Official Languages committee  I was just going to say that it was reported at our board meeting that CBC will be phasing out all the live recordings of music, new live recordings of music across the board by a certain date. I forget what the date is, but it's coming up relatively soon. The CBC live recordings

Official Languages committee  I'll just add to that. The cuts are really going to hurt. They're hurting already. At our last board meeting, which was just this week, our treasurer, who's a professional musician—

Official Languages committee  Yes.

Official Languages committee  With regard to youth retention in the arts—Guy has alluded to this already—there are a lot of opportunities in arts and culture to encourage youth to be involved in the community. Our organization, which I represent in Theatre Wakefield, is an umbrella group. We run programs fo

Official Languages committee  First of all, I'd like to say regarding community-based arts organizations and artists working in the regions, there is a tremendous culture of volunteerism. Any money, any funding invested in projects by these groups is money well spent, because it's paid back many times over by

Official Languages committee  Tourism is another sector in which arts and culture can create jobs and have a beneficial impact on local communities, particularly in regions outside Montreal. CEDEC recently sponsored a study on economic benefits of tourism. We look forward to seeing the results. The arts are

Official Languages committee  Statistics Canada reported in 2005 that the arts in Canada employed twice as many people as forestry or banking. Most of these people work for very small not-for-profit organizations or are self-employed. They are a highly diverse group, whose language skills and economic profile

Official Languages committee  In 2011, Guernica Editions published a series of essays entitled Minority Report: An Alternative History of English-Language Arts in Quebec. This landmark review noted that English-language writers in the 1970s were squeezed between two nationalisms: the growing separatist moveme

Official Languages committee  Other potential celebration activities could include anglo-initiated bilingual projects to increase visibility within the majority language community. Building from ELAN's ACCORD, arts and community culture on the road, project, there could also be many fruitful interregional art

Official Languages committee  This is not to say there are no challenges involved with celebrating English-speaking culture in Quebec. Official interest at the provincial level in celebrating the 150th anniversary of Canada is likely to be muted. There will also be some opposition to any event that smacks of