Canadian Heritage committee  Well, I think that if a municipality decides that it wants to provide tax concessions to a cultural hub or a cultural district, that's a tool that is available to that municipality to realize its vision of a more grand, more solid creative economy. The tax concession is a tool to

Canadian Heritage committee  Within the framework of the CICs, nothing comes to mind.

Canadian Heritage committee  We've recently introduced community interest corporations in Nova Scotia so an entity can incorporate in that way. I think it remains to be seen how provincial and municipal governments are going to interpret that structure and how flexible and innovative they'll be in opening up

Canadian Heritage committee  My sense is that at the provincial level there is a great deal of interest in and optimism about the possibility of bringing together the ability to generate a profit and the mandate to have positive social community impact. Speaking from the perspective of the Cape Breton Regi

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you for the invitation to be here today. New Dawn was founded in 1976. Through its work in a number of sectors, it's focused on creating a vibrant, self-reliant Unama'ki/Cape Breton Island. The Cape Breton Centre for Arts and Culture, a cultural hub in industrial Cape B