There is no doubt that the cuts to the museum assistance program will have an impact on museums all across Canada, because that $9 million envelope--which was the amount until the current cuts--serves a wide range of small and medium-sized museums across Canada, but at this point we're still in the dark. It's been several weeks since it was announced, but there's been no official word from the Department of Canadian Heritage as to how these cuts will be applied and what will be impacted.
I heard the minister here say that the $2.5 million in cuts is from an administrative component of that $9 million, but I would be very surprised if a $9 million grant program has an overhead of $2.5 million.