Liberal
- Match ticket sales for cultural venues to compensate for COVID restrictions.
- Provide emergency relief to out-of-work artists, craftsmen, creators, & authors who are primarily self-employed or independent contractors.
- Update the Copyright Act, including allowing resale rights for artists.
- Hold a summit within 100 days on plans to restart the industry.
- Invest $43M/year for authors & publishers.
Launch a new Arts and Culture Recovery Program that will match ticket sales for performing arts, live theatres, and other cultural venues to compensate for reduced capacity.
Extend COVID-related insurance coverage for media production stoppages to support 150,000 Canadian jobs.
Implement a COVID-19 transitional support program to provide emergency relief to out-of-work artists, craftsmen, creators, and authors who are primarily self-employed or independent contractors.
Ensure the realities of artists and cultural workers are considered in upcoming reforms to the Employment Insurance (EI) system.
Protect Canadian artists, creators, and copyright holders by making changes to the Copyright Act, including amending the Act to allow resale rights for artists.
Hold a summit, within the first 100 days, on plans to restart the industry.
— Forward. For Everyone., retrieved 2021-09-02
Mandate BCD & EDC to support the growth of creative industries in new markets; Launch a new cultural diplomacy strategy with an annual budget of $20M.
— Forward. For Everyone., retrieved 2021-09-02
Develop a new $50 million Changing Narratives Fund to empower diverse communities, including BIPOC journalists and creatives, with the tools to tell their own stories and promote diverse voices in arts and culture and across media.
— Forward. For Everyone., retrieved 2021-09-02
Invest $43 million per year to support Canadian authors and books publishers by increasing, by 50%, funding for through the Canada Book Fund, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Public Lending Right Program.
— Forward. For Everyone., retrieved 2021-09-02