Dion Sides with Arts and Culture: Conservatives Plan more Damage

Stephen Dion said today that, if elected, a Liberal Government would reverse the damage done by Harper to the Arts and strengthen them more than ever before. Among Dion's promises

Doubling the budget of the Canada Council for the Arts to $360 million a year

Increasing the film production tax credit to 30 per cent from 25 per cent

Reversing the Conservatives' $45 million in cuts to the budgets of various arts groups.

Dion also pointed to a fundraising letter send out by the Conservatives that asks the question "The CBC costs taxpayers over $1.1 billion per year. Do you think this is a good use of taxpayers' dollars or a bad use of taxpayers' dollars?" This doesn't obviously bode well for the CBC or for the Conservatives future plans for Arts and Culture.