Finance committee  Thank you, Ms. Gagnon. Later on, Ms. Samson will do a better job than I could of telling you about problems facing the film industry and distribution in Canada and abroad. As to the arts we are talking about, the Mouvement pour les arts et les lettres is an association of Quebe

Finance committee  The current budget is $186 million. That is the budget allocation approved annually by Parliament. There has been a $30 million increase since 2007.

Finance committee  In point of fact, these are programs that were ...

Finance committee  Pardon me?

Finance committee  An extra $40 million a year will add up to $300 million.

Finance committee  That is right.

Finance committee  It would be managed by the Council for the Arts. One of these programs was managed by Foreign Affairs Canada and the other by Canadian Heritage.

Finance committee  Our sectors are funded by the Canada Council for the Arts and by Canadian Heritage, which does have certain responsibilities, especially in terms of disseminating performance arts. These programs were renewed recently, and we are happy about that. For example, last year the Libe

Finance committee  Good morning, and thank you for inviting the Mouvement pour les arts et les lettres, or MAL, a Quebec coalition representing over 10,000 professional artists, artisans, writers and cultural workers in Quebec. The MAL advocates for a substantial increase in public funding for the

Finance committee  In late November of last year, Ms. Frulla had announced an increase of $150 million for the Canada Council budget.

Finance committee  The election!

Finance committee  The current government did announce an increase of $20 million for this year, which will end in April 2007, and an increase of $30 million the following year.

Finance committee  No, not really, because since it had been established last year and as is still true this year, we need to at least double the budget of the Canada Council, that is, raise it to $300 million. Currently, it's $156 million. It will be $176 million if the $20 million we're expecting

Finance committee  Good morning, Mr. Chairman. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. With me today is my colleague, Lorraine Hébert, who is the Executive Director of the Regroupement québécois de la danse, who will introduce the Mouvement pour les arts et les lettres, of which I am not the Executiv

Finance committee  Although our movement began by working initially, since 1999, with the Quebec government to get budget increases for the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, we have not been able to disregard what was going on in Canada, particularly because the great institution known as