Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I am a big supporter of the arts community. I really believe that arts speak to the heart and soul of the people and to our society, but arts funding all quite often isn’t maybe as shiny as maybe some of the oil and gas funding that is given out. That causes me some concern, because I think that there are many areas of our society in excitement we can represent. Arts bring in things like tourism. I think they build communities, such as personal pride and promotion. Mr. Speaker, the Northern Arts and Cultural Centre is suffering from lack of core funding that doesn’t meet the times and the needs that they are suffering from. So my question to the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment at this moment is, has he had a chance to be briefed on this problem that the core funding isn’t appropriate for NACC? Is he willing to revisit that problem and see if he can address this issue? Thank you.
Robert Hawkins on Question 55-16(1): Core Funding For Northern Arts And Cultural Centre
In the Legislative Assembly on November 28th, 2007. See this statement in context.
Question 55-16(1): Core Funding For Northern Arts And Cultural Centre
Item 7: Oral Questions
November 27th, 2007
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