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news > Progressive Canadians on the Arts in Canada Progressive Canadians on the Arts in CanadaFor Immediate Release September 25 , 2008
Mr. Marlatt, himself a UBCP Extra member with direct experience of the challenges of fundraising and marketing BC made documentary film, noted that funding and domestic control of the means of distribution of film and other cultural forms is vital. "It is something the private sector is often unwilling to do or target for investment; it’s easier and cheaper to buy off-the-rack than to tailor your product for a Canadian audience,"he said, "so it is up to the public sector to build and support the infrastructure of the Arts, including film which is of such great importance to our economy here in BC." "That is why the PC Party - the Progressive Canadian Party - answered in the affirmative to ACTRA’s three key questions in the last election and now again in 2008." In 2006, ACTRA asked each party whether they would support CRTC content and spending requirements on private broadcasters to "Tell our stories," provide increased stable funding to the Canadian Television Fund, Telefilm, and the CBC to fund culture, and keep the current limits on foreign ownership of Canada’s broadcast industry - the means of distribution - to own our airwaves. "The PC Party said yes, Harper’s Cons did not answer - that is how you hide an agenda,"Marlatt said ACTRA today asks each party to commit to reversing cuts to culture and support stable funding for the Canadian Television Fund, Telefilm and the CBC, oppose arbitrary government powers to censor Canadian film and TV production, and fix CRTC and foreign ownership rules to ensure Canadian sovereign control of our airwaves. The PC Party says yes, we know where Stephen Harper stands. The Hon. Sinclair Stevens, PC Party Leader, applauded Marlatt’s remarks saying "Your position and the Party’s position is clear - In an age of advanced communications we must improve access to Canadian Culture Resources which entails assured long term federal funding and rigid protection of our culture delivery systems from foreign take-over. You are on a good Wicket here - go get
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South Surrey, BC - PC Party Candidate Brian Marlatt reaffirmed today his commitment and that of his party to the Arts. "The Arts and culture are how we define ourselves as a people. Stephen Harper thinks "ordinary people" share his philistine opinions. Well, this ordinary Canadian doesn’t; the cuts to the Arts, to the CBC, Telefilm, the New Media Fund is a slash and burn approach to culture and to the means of sharing it amongst Canadians," Marlatt said, adding that this was another example of how the Harper government has wandered from the Progressive Conservative path of respect and support for the Arts.