There have been occasional investments into the parliamentary appropriations of the Canadian Council for the Arts over about the last six decades. It's been growing occasionally with increases, the last one being $30 million in 2007, but there hasn't been any further increase since. As a result of that, there's a gap between the diversity of arts practices out there and the means that are available to make this sector really flourish and create even more jobs.
On October 29th, 2014. See this statement in context.