$23.5M for the Canada Media Fund to support the creation of Canadian content
$0.7M for the Youth Take Charge Program in order to expand the reach of the program to more young people across Canada
$4.9M for the Rideau Hall Foundation to support initiatives that strengthen Canadian identity
$0.5M for a grant payment to the Michaëlle Jean Foundation to promote arts, creativity and civic participation
Transfers to PCH from other Departments ($495,000)
$310,000 from Crown-Indigenous Relations an Northern Affairs to promote community participation in National Aboriginal Day activities
$150,000 from Justice Canada for the symposium to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Official Languages Act
$35,000 from Women and Gender Equality in support to the Commemorations of the 30th anniversary of the Polytechnic killings
Budgetary Credits
Canada Media Fund (CMF)
Message: Our Government is making changes to the Canada Media Fund to ensure that our creative industries succeed in the digital age. The CMF now supports content specifically designed for online audiences, implemented new sector development activities that address key gaps in the production ecosystem, and placed a greater emphasis on early-stage development projects, for the first time directly providing support to creators for activities like script writing.
Facts: This additional funding of $23.5 million (in addition to the $134.1 million recurrent paid by the department to the CMF) will provide a stable source of funds for the CMF and allow it to continue to invest a minimum of $350 million a year in the creation of Canadian content.
Youth Take Charge Program (YTC)
Message: In 2019-20, PCH provides an amount of $700,000 in supplementary funding to the Youth Take Charge Program. This funding will help YTC increase its reach to a greater number of diverse youth, including those from underserved communities.
Facts: The YTC was created in 2010 with the objective of strengthening youth attachment to Canada through engagement in one of four thematic areas: history and heritage; civic engagement; arts and culture; and economic activities. YTC supports youth-led projects that involve youth, aged 7 to 30, in collaborative activities to increase awareness of being active and engaged citizens and promote a sense of shared Canadian identity.
Rideau Hall Foundation
Message: PCH provides a grant of $4,920,029 to the Rideau Hall Foundation. $10 million has been identified in the fiscal framework to provide a legacy grant to the Foundation during the period 2017–2018 to 2027–2028. No other payments will be made beyond 2019–2020, as the Foundation has reached the maximum amount of the grant agreement.
Facts: The Rideau Hall Foundation, established in 2012, is a Canadian charitable organization that aims to foster a smart and caring nation. A named grant agreement was signed between PCH (administered by the Youth Take Charge Program) and the Foundation on January 31, 2018.
Michaëlle Jean Foundation
Message: PCH grants an amount of $497,052 to the Michaëlle Jean Foundation. $10 million has been identified in the fiscal framework to provide a legacy grant to the Foundation during the period 2010–2011 to 2019–2020. This grant agreement has ended. No other payments will be made beyond 2019-2020.
Facts: The Michaëlle Jean Foundation is a Canadian non-profit organization that uses arts to enable underserved youth to use creativity to change their lives and their communities. A named grant agreement was signed between PCH (administered by the Youth Take Charge Program) and the Foundation on August 15, 2010.
Transfers to PCH from other Departments
Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs
Message: Every year, PCH, with support from Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada, funds events from coast-to-coast-to-coast for all Canadians to celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Day. In 2019, more than 200 community events were held on National Indigenous Peoples Day in every province and territory across the country.
Facts: National Indigenous Peoples Day on June 21, recognizes and celebrates the unique heritage, diverse cultures and extraordinary contributions of First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples. Crown Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada transfers an amount of $310,000 in funding each year to Canadian Heritage’s “Celebrate Canada” program to support community and large-scale events.
Justice Canada
Message: PCH obtained a transfer in support of the symposium commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Official Languages Act. The Department of Justice contributed to a support fund for participants from isolated, disadvantaged or underserved communities or organizations, as well as to promotion and communication costs, and to costs related to consultants.
Facts: The Symposium addressed the themes of official languages in the digital age, Canada in the world, the promotion of culture and bilingualism, the mobilization, development and vitality of official language minority communities, and federal institutions that embody official languages.
Women and Gender Equality Canada (WAGE)
Message: PCH, with support from WAGE, funded commemoration activities to highlight the 30th anniversary of the Polytechnic tragedy. Funds transferred from WAGE supplemented Canadian Heritage’s contribution to the Association étudiante de Polytechnique for their project "A Duty to remember: the commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the Polytechnic killings", namely for the publication of a book recounting the story of the Polytechnic tragedy.
Facts: Canadian Heritage, through the Celebration and Commemoration Program, provided $75,000 to the project. WAGE supported the commemoration activity with a transfer of $35,000 to PCH.
Transfers from PCH to other Departments ($2.9M)
$50,000 to Library and Archives Canada to disseminate a national study on the economic and social value of cultural institutions
$360,000 to Library and Archives Canada to support the acquisition, cataloguing and preservation of Canadian sound recordings
$1.2M to Library and Archives to preserve Indigenous culture and language recordings
$100,000 to Public Works and Government Services to build capacity in translating, transcribing and interpreting Indigenous languages
$120,000 from various organizations to Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development, for the North American Platform Program Partnership
$127,000 to the Canada Council for the Arts for French-language theatre projects
$300,000 to the Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness for Canada’s Anti-Racism Strategy
$504,697 to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council for research on sport participation
$639,000 to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council for the Joint Initiative for Digital Citizen Research
Transfers from PCH to other Departments and organizations:
Library and Archives Canada (LAC)
Study on economic and social value of cultural institutions
Message: PCH is transferring $50,000 to LAC in support of the dissemination of the Study on the Value of Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums. With this funding, LAC will undertake various activities to make this Study widely available, including providing translation, reference documents and a tool-kit.
Facts: The national study, conducted by Oxford Economics, was commissioned by the Canadian Museums Association and the Ottawa Declaration Working Group, of which LAC is a part. The Study on the Value of Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums was made possible thanks to the financial contributions of PCH ($150,000 in total), the McConnell Foundation and Ms. Rosamund Ivey. Preliminary results of this Study were presented at Taking It to the People: 2019 Summit on the Value of Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums which took place in Montréal on May 13, 2019.
Preservation of Canadian sound recordings
Message: PCH is transferring $360,000 to LAC in support of the acquisition, cataloguing, and preservation of Canadian sound recordings. With this funding, LAC will acquire currently released and retrospective Canadian sound recordings, strengthen legal deposit, and contribute to the preservation of, and access to Canada’s recorded sound heritage.
Facts: The agreement between the two organizations expires on March 31, 2020. As such, this will be the final transfer between the two organizations. LAC has confirmed with PCH that the termination of the Canadian Musical Memories component would not impact on its ability to acquire and catalogue new sound recordings through their Legal Deposit policy. PCH and LAC will be developing measures to facilitate the acquisition of older sound recordings and ensure a smooth transition beyond the current Memorandum of Understanding.
Preservation of Indigenous culture and languages recordings
Message: PCH transferred $1,200,000 to support LAC’s Listen, Hear Our Voice program (the Program). The Program provides contribution funding to assist First Nation, Inuit and Métis Nation organizations digitize existing Indigenous culture and language recordings and build the skills, knowledge and resources needed to digitize and preserve Indigenous culture.
Facts: By way of its Listen, Hear our Voice program, Library and Archives Canada will fund projects to digitize existing Indigenous culture and language recordings and build the skills, knowledge and resources needed to digitize and preserve Indigenous culture. This initiative is part of our Government’s efforts to support the important role that Indigenous peoples have played in Canada’s history and celebrate together the rich heritage of Indigenous culture.
Public Works and Government Services – Translation Bureau
Message: PCH signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) of $100,000 with the Translation Bureau, through Public Works, to fund activities promoting Indigenous languages by providing quality linguistics services in a variety of Indigenous languages. The MOU will directly contribute to the implementation of the Indigenous Languages Act.
Facts: PCH and the Translation Bureau are working together to support the promotion of Indigenous languages and cultures. PCH supports the Translation Bureau’s efforts to work with Indigenous communities and build capacity in translation and interpretation services in Indigenous languages as these efforts will help to improve communications and can offer career development opportunities for Indigenous language speakers.
Canada Council for the Arts
Message: Since 2003-2004, PCH annually transfers of $127,000 dollars to the Canada Council for the Arts to administer the Government of Canada’s support to the Commission internationale du théâtre francophone (CITF), which supports collaborations for the creation, production and circulation of French-language theatre within the countries of the Francophonie. This transfer of funds ensures that Canada, a founding member of the CITF, supports multilateral French-language theatre projects.
Facts: The CITF supports the creation, production and circulation of French-language theatre within the countries of the Francophonie. Activities of the CITF directly contribute to the Departmental strategic outcome: “Canadian artistic expressions and cultural content are created and accessible at home and abroad”.
Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development
Message: The Government joined the North American Platform Program Partnership (NAPP) to better position creative industries for export sales in the United States, and Mexico. This investment has resulted in an increased collaboration between Canadian Heritage and Global Affairs Canada’s network of North American missions, particularly during key trade events directly benefiting the creative industries.
Facts: Starting in 2019-20, Canadian Heritage joined the International Business Development IBD stream for the next three fiscal years, for an annual contribution of $120,000. While PCH paid $120,000 to join the NAPP, $167,100 worth of projects were delivered in North America thanks to NAPP funding. PCH was able to leverage an additional investment of $47,000.
Public Safety and Emergency preparedness
Message: PCH transfers $300,000 to the Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness as part of the Anti-Racism Strategy in order to develop a national framework to better understand and deal with hate crimes and hate speech in Canada.
Facts: This Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Public Safety will enable a $300,000 transfer per year for three years, starting in 2019-2020, to that organization.
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
Joint Initiative for Digital Citizen Research
Message: We are investing $19.4 million through the Digital Citizen Initiative to help us understand and mitigate the impact of online disinformation on Canadian society. The investment includes a transfer of $639,000 to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) to fund research grants to new and established researchers via the new Department of Canadian Heritage and SSHRC Joint Initiative for Digital Citizen Research.
Facts: The focus of the DCCP and the joint initiative with SSHRC is on funding projects to better understand the origins, spread, and impacts of online disinformation and other online harms. These projects will also deepen our understanding of what success looks like in the building citizen resilience and digital media literacy space, as well as the impact of these types of activities in a Canadian context. Another main focus of the DCI’s research component this year is connecting researchers from across Canada to work together, which will build long-term capacity to conduct research in this field in the long term.
Research on sport participation
Message: Each year, Sport Canada allocates up to $750,000 for various research projects through the Sport Participation Research Initiative (SPRI), a joint initiative with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. The initiative strengthens Canada’s research capacity related to sport participation. In 2019–20, $504,697 was transferred to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council for this initiative.
Facts: The SPRI builds Canada's capacity to conduct research related to participation in sport, specifically in the following five target areas: Participant development, System performance, Values and ethics, Major games and events, and Social and economic development.
