NDP culture critic Spencer Herbert warns of arts fudge-it budget
NDP culture critic Spencer Herbert says he’s worried the B.C. Liberal government might “try to fudge the numbers” in the next provincial budget to fool the public into thinking arts funding has been restored. In a phone interview with the Georgia Straight, Herbert said that even if the March 2 budget continues funding the B.C. Arts Council with gaming revenue, this would not necessarily bring funding back to the 2008-09 level.
“I’m concerned what they’ll do is take the gaming money, put it in the B.C. Arts Council to keep the arts council budget whole, but overall that will still be more than a 50-percent cut in arts funding,” Herbert said. “That’s better than a 90-percent cut, but it’s still brutal.”
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