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It was well attended by people who care more than a whit over the civic budget cuts proposed by senior staff in the 2009 Draft Budget, about which Justin and I have spoken at some small length before. This is no small cause for thanksgiving. People who give a damn seem to have been multiplying in their ranks in recent years for any number of reasons. Good on you.
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The news services were also there in force. CBC/Radio Canada(both official languages) were represented, as were CTV/A-Channel, Rogers, CFQ, and others from the private-owned side of the aisle. To all of them as well, good on you. You've been paying attention.
As noted by one of the speakers, per the more recent financial investigations of such matters, it's come to light that for every dollar the city invests in the arts and heritage sector, the local economy gets $21 back in spin-off business effect. Hotels, convention facilities, restaurants, printing, assorted other businesses great and small throughout the city share in that windfall.
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Not exactly chicken feed, when you consider the effects on civic revenues. Or provincial. Or federal.
Plus you get some fine entertainments that stick around when the tourists, the business travellers and the diplomats all head home at the end of the day.
Win-win, as has been said elsewhere.
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