Ontario cultural agencies get $43.4-million boost
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"Ontario culture minister Aileen Carroll announced a major boost to six cultural agencies yesterday, pledging $43.4-million in new operating funds this year.Flanked by elated cultural leaders whose organizations have been battered by the declining economy, she announced a one-time boost of $18.6-million for 2009-2010 and an annual operating increase of $24.8-million to be split among six institutions. The beneficiaries, all located in the Greater Toronto Area, are the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Royal Ontario Museum, the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, the Ontario Science Centre, the Ontario Heritage Trust and the Royal Botanical Gardens.
As a result, the permanent combined provincial contributions to these six institutions will jump to $80.8-million annually from the $56-million spent in 2008-2009, a 45-per-cent increase which AGO director and CEO Matthew Teitelbaum called "unprecedented."
"We recognize the incredible contribution that the cultural agencies make to our economy, but in order for them to keep making that, we need to give them the stability and the sustainability so they can do what they do best," Carroll said at the ROM, where the announcement was made. The AGO and ROM are the biggest winners, splitting $34.8-million of the new money between them.
The announcement comes less than one week after the AGO laid off 23 permanent staff as part of a large-scale restructuring plan. Gallery spokeswoman Susan Bloch-Nevitte said the AGO was "restructuring for a changing time," and would hardly have acted differently had they known a provincial windfall was on the way."
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