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Written by Coalition to Keep Federal Support of Literary, Scholarly and Arts Magazines
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Monday, 08 June 2009 |
Canadian literary, arts, and
scholarly magazines publishing in either English and French are in
danger of losing a key federal funding source.
On February 17, 2009, Canadian Heritage Minister James Moore announced in a speech he made in Montreal (http://www.pch.gc.ca/pc-ch/minstr/moore/disc-spch/20090217-eng.cfm)
that the Canada Magazine Fund and Publishing Assistance Program will be
merged to create the Canada Periodical Fund. Initiatives from this new
body will come on stream in 2010/2011.
Departing from his
prepared remarks, James Moore indicated that eligiblity for funding
could potentially be restricted to those magazines with an annual
circulation above 5000. With notable exceptions, the circulation of
virtually every Canadian literary, arts, and scholarly magazine, large
and small, is below 5000.
We have to make sure this
possibility does not become an actuality, for if it does, as April 1,
2010, these important and praiseworthy magazines will no longer qualify
for funding that they have been receiving for years from the CMF and
PAP despite the excellent work that they undertake for the readers,
writers, and researchers across Canada (and around the world)!
The
Coalition to Keep Canadian Heritage Support for Literary and Arts
Magazine feels strongly that to render these magazines ineligible for
this support would be unjust. To quote Andris Taskans, editor of
Prairie Fire, to do so would be "a slap in the face"---not only to the
magazines themselves but to the many writers and researchers that they
publish, many of whom began illustrious, international careers in these
seminal if modest publcations. To do so would also be a "slap in the
face" to the ordinary (and extraordinary) Canadians who read them.
By
joining the Coalition, readers, writers, and researchers everywhere
send a strong message to the Honorable James Moore, the Department of
Canadian Heritage, and the Canada Periodical Fund that we believe in
our literary, arts, and scholarly magazines and feel that they should
continue to do so by supporting them through well-deserved and
sustained financial support.
To do so, would be the cheapest
economic stimulus package the Government of Canada could initiate.
Every single dollar granted to us or paid to us by a subscriber or a
newsstand buyer goes back into the economy.
Put it this way,
when Canadians get into their Chrysler and GM cars, they have to drive
somewhere. A lot of them drive to their newsstands and bookstores to
buy a literary, arts, and scholarly magazine.
Say yes to
continued Canadian Heritage funding through the Canada Periodical Fund
for Canada's arts, literary, and scholarly magazines!
Say yes to the writers, researchers, and readers of Canada!
Download our petition and collect signatures:
http://arcpoetry.ca/petition/Magazine_Petition.pdf
http://arcpoetry.ca/petition/Magazine_Petition_Francais.pdf
For
more details about these potential funding cuts, read coverage that
appeared on the Quill & Quire website on February 20 and 24, 2009
(scroll through the news section to read both stories):
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