The amount that's at stake in this budget is $540 million, that's the global amount. Of the $540 million, the new money is $276 million, and within that is $2 million for the Manège militaire in Quebec City, $75 million for national historic sites, $14 million for arts training and professional artistic careers, $25 million for prizes, $60 million for cultural and heritage infrastructure--museums, the Toronto library identified in the budget speech--and $100 million for festivals and marquee events across the country. So that's $276 million in new dollars. That's a lot of money. That's more than a quarter of a billion dollars in injection into arts and culture in this country as a way to push the stimulus forward, and I think it's being well received by Canadians.
On February 9th, 2009. See this statement in context.