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Support for BC's creative community
VANCOUVER/CKNW (AM980)
Alison Bailey Email news tips to alison.bailey@corusent.com
1/31/2013

The BC government has announced a three part strategy for BC's creative sector but at least one person in the film industry says it's not enough.


The strategy is called "BC Creative Futures" and Minister of Community Sport and Cultural Development Bill Bennett says 6.25 million dollars is going into new and expanded existing programs like after-school sport and arts initatives in the artists and education program.


He says a new agency, "Creative BC", will work with arts communities, but a man in the audience who works in the film industry says the strategy won't be enough to save 25-thousand jobs.

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  1. Ron_26 posted on 01/31/2013 10:36 AM
    For some nameless men, it's never enough.
    I wonder if "Thank You" might be a more fruitful response?
  2. WizardOron posted on 01/31/2013 11:24 AM
    So much for the "free enterprise coalition" being concerned about jobs in BC. The film industry was contributing upwards of $20 billion to the BC economy and instead of this government sitting down with the film industry or anyone for that matter they come up with a strategy that does nothing to keep the industry afloat in BC.

    The film industry has reached out to the government to try and work out a feasible solution and the government snubs them and comes up with a strategy that does nothing to address the present issue.

    A "thank you" may have been something to say but this latest government strategy is basically kissing the BC film industry goodbye.
    1. DavidSB posted on 01/31/2013 01:21 PM
      @WizardOron I always like to look at it this way Wizard. Let's take it to the extreme (that should be the acid test of all government policy). If these subsidies will be good for one business, they will be good for all businesses. So what would happen if we were fair and balanced and gave the same subsidy/rebate/tax cut - whatever you want to call it - to all businesses? Would the government be in a greater deficit than they are now? If so then it is an unsustainable practice and we are stealing from one area of the economy to favor another. If it works when we do it for everyone then let's do it for everyone. If it creates an even greater deficit then why should we be stealing from other equally hard working industries to compensate an already overpaid industry as is?
  3. MichaelD_10 posted on 01/31/2013 12:59 PM
    film industry says the strategy won't be enough to save 25-thousand jobs

    I see house prices going down. And with an NDP government on the way mineral exploration will be down. No to the pipe lines, more lost jobs. Maybe BC can dodge that bullet when Harper rams the pipe line down our throats.
  4. DavidSB posted on 01/31/2013 01:15 PM
    If they are so creative what do they need our money for?
  5. Jartann posted on 01/31/2013 04:33 PM
    The difference is that these industries are mobile. So, they can play one jurisdiction off against the other. So, politicians who want to look and sound good will typically give these industries "tax breaks", while reducing taxes on other businesses is evidence of rewarding "greed". Economic illiteracy is now so widespread that there is no chance that a common sense solution will happen. So, if you are in a business or profession that is not mobile-you are a sitting duck and are about to get whacked by the NDP government to come, all in the name of "fairness", but really just to pander to those who practice the poltics of envy.
    1. DavidSB posted on 01/31/2013 11:52 PM
      @Jartann The bottom line Jartann is that it is still stealing from either another industry or our grandkids. Why would you steal from ethical and upstanding industries and give to unethical blackmailers? That is not a wise business practice we should reward
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