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1. What role do the arts play in your life?
I am a musician so the importance of the arts in the healthy
functioning of an integrated community cannot be underemphasized.
The arts provide both a personal and public forum for the
introduction, discussion, and critique of
both mainstream and alternative ideas. A society without the
arts is a society without a conscience, a society without
imagination.
2. What role do the arts play in keeping people healthy?
The arts are fundamental to human health. Children who have
early and continuous access become more well-rounded and informed
citizens who are better able to participate in the prevalent
debates of our times. In
addition, the arts can be an important mechanism to harness
and explore, in a positive way, the energy and emotions of
our daily experience in this highly political world.
3. Why is it important that Toronto have a healthy arts
sector?
Without a healthy arts sector, Toronto will cease to be an
innovator of new ideas. It will stop nurturing the incredible
multiculturalism that it possesses. Its residents will lose
touch with the deeper reasons for human existence. It will
cease to ask the bigger questions that need to be asked such
as "Should we continue to destroy our planet and the
expense of future generations?"
4. Does your party believe that Canadian content and
ownership should be protected in our broadcasting industry?
Absolutely.
5. Our artists help make our society prosperous, yet
many of them work and live in relative poverty. How can the
Federal Government assist in returning some of that prosperity
to our artists?
Artists must be seen as valuable contributors to the healthy
functioning of society; therefore, artists should be offered
a guaranteed income supplement when working on their art.
6. Do you support federal investment in Canada’s
arts sector?
Does investment in the arts produce a health dividend?
An educational dividend? A public safety dividend?
If elected, would you vote to increase funding to the
arts sector through The Canada Council? Through Department
of Canadian Heritage?
Do you support provision of stable, adequate, multi-year
arts funding?
Yes to all questions.
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