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Canadian Heritage committee  I have spoken to colleagues who have received the funding. That was the example I was giving where it was very easy to get the money. That was great. The only concern is how long that funding will last. As my colleagues in the performing arts were saying, this is just the beginni

November 30th, 2020Committee meeting

Catherine Cole

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, that would be helpful. I know the Canadian Museums Association does provide a lower rate of insurance for board members, but even that is prohibitively expensive for some people. I know of situations, like a theatre board I was on. People came in to join the board, found out

November 30th, 2020Committee meeting

Catherine Cole

Canadian Heritage committee  I am working on planning a feasibility study for the Nunavut Heritage Centre in Iqaluit. We have been unable to do any community consultation related to that project, aside from telephone calls. It's really important to bring people together in a room, to have the elders speak to

November 30th, 2020Committee meeting

Catherine Cole

Canadian Heritage committee  We need to streamline things as much as possible. Obviously, we need accountability. I'm not questioning that. I was talking to a colleague last week who said that for the emergency funding, it took her literally 20 minutes to fill in the form to get a huge amount of money compar

November 30th, 2020Committee meeting

Catherine Cole

Canadian Heritage committee  They all are, yes, and to be honest, it's not just federal funding either. I was doing a focus group with people in B.C. once about their arts funding, and one of the people in the focus group said, “We might as well fill in the application in our own blood.” The person who hired

November 30th, 2020Committee meeting

Catherine Cole

Canadian Heritage committee  My comment about not needing to have full-time paid staff to be able to apply for some of these things...The first time I applied to the museums assistance program for the Commonwealth Association of Museums I was able to apply for it, but the second time a rule was in place that

November 30th, 2020Committee meeting

Catherine Cole

Canadian Heritage committee  It was impossible because we didn't have full-time paid staff, so we couldn't apply. There are the people who say you have to have an audit. If your budget is $75,000 a year and you have to pay $5,000 of it for an audit, it's just disproportionate to how much money you have. You

November 30th, 2020Committee meeting

Catherine Cole

Canadian Heritage committee  I certainly think there are better ways of going about it. One is just recognition of the fact that this is a three-tiered funding structure. It's federal, provincial and municipal. They all depend on one other, yet they don't seem to communicate very effectively between one anot

November 30th, 2020Committee meeting

Catherine Cole

Canadian Heritage committee  I think the expectation is that the boards will provide that governance function and the accountability. They are there as a buffer for the government to know that the money's not being just walked away and that people are behaving appropriately. The actual professional standard

November 30th, 2020Committee meeting

Catherine Cole

Canadian Heritage committee  Good morning, everyone. I really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you today. Whether or not museum staff have been able to work on site or museums have been able to reopen varies regionally. We don't yet know the full impact of closures on the future of Canadian museums,

November 30th, 2020Committee meeting

Catherine Cole