Canadian Heritage committee  Do you mean equitable as far as the council funding goes?

Canadian Heritage committee  I don't see it, no. That can't be the only criteria, because it's not an even.... I don't know the statistics off the top of my head. You know how much money is going to Alberta. However, there are fewer organizations in Alberta because there is less infrastructure to build tho

Canadian Heritage committee  There's not a base of funding. The provincial and civic funding have not grown, and none of the established organizations are going to say, “Hey, you can take some of my money because we should support these new organizations.” We're not that generous.

Canadian Heritage committee  Even for institutions that were founded in Alberta in the Lougheed years, when they got into the operating stream—and that's kind of grandfathered because it's hard for funders to take money away—there's just no room to nurture new organizations and new artists because there hasn

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes.

Canadian Heritage committee  Do you mean in person? I couldn't tell you that. I'm sorry.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes.

Canadian Heritage committee  I would say it was more than five.

Canadian Heritage committee  I'm sorry, but I can't give you that data off the top of my head.

Canadian Heritage committee  I see that as very difficult. From the standpoint of sitting on a jury, if we had to take a lens that so much has to go to each province, there would be.... Excellence of the applications still has to apply. If there weren't good applications from Alberta, we would be denying goo

Canadian Heritage committee  Good afternoon. I thank you for this opportunity to speak to you today. My name is Kathi Sundstrom, and I'm the Executive Director of Calgary-based Decidedly Jazz Danceworks, DJD. DJD is one of a handful of jazz dance companies in North America. Our mission is to enrich lives b

Canadian Heritage committee  At this point, the only one I know specific details about is the Building Canada fund, which would be for renovations of the facilities and which we would not be eligible for. I have not seen the details. I've heard that the details are going to come, but I haven't seen details o

Canadian Heritage committee  Oh, 2017 is very close, and time goes very fast. In order to do something properly, we need more advance notice, yes.

Canadian Heritage committee  The paperwork is massive and the rules change continuously. We have a lawyer who does it all for us pro bono. If we didn't have that, we wouldn't be able to do it. There was no example that I know of, of abuse in the cultural sector. From having run auditions across Canada for 10

Canadian Heritage committee  We recently did a project with a guest company from Brazil. We brought in five dancers and shared an evening of work. We did half the work; they did half the work, and then we did a collaboration. We would love this to be a much larger project and to tour to Brazil, but there isn