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The economic return of arts and culture
Industry Minister explains relationship between funding of arts and culture in the context of generating economic activity T R E VO R C R AW L E Y
To borrow a phrase from an American political advisor to Bill
Clinton during the 1992 presidential election — “It’s the economy, stupid.”
Over the past nine years, especially during the 2011 federal election, the Conservative
Party hammered that mantra home. If you recall, everywhere you turned,
some Tory politician or spokesperson was asking for a “strong, stable, national, majority Con-
servative government” while trumpeting their economic credentials. Conservatives like to
TAYLOR ROCCA PHOTO
KIJHL Eddie Mountain Division vice president Phil Iddon was on hand to present the Kimberley Dynamiters with the Kootenay Conference championship banner prior to puck drop of Game 1 of the KIJHL championship Saturday night. From left to right: Defenceman Jordan Busch, forward Jared Marchi, defenceman Tyler Kinnon, forward Jason Richter and Phil Iddon. See more, Page 8.
portray themselves as the guardian of taxpayer’s money and responsible spending on economic priorities, such as infrastructure or national defence. However, there’s more to government spending to those kinds of priorities, as brought up by federal Industry Minister James Moore last week. Moore, who was in Cranbrook to address members of the Cranbrook Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday, spent much of his address speaking about the economy both from an inter-provincial and internationally standpoint. However, he did devote much of his time afterwards to taking questions from the crowd, one of which was from City Councillor Danielle Cardozo, who asked Moore to explain the relationship between government funding of arts and culture in the context of generating economic activity. “Arts and culture represents 640,000 jobs in the Canadian economy,” said Moore. “It’s three times the size of Canada’s insurance industry. It’s twice the size of Canada’s forest industry.
See MOORE, Page 3
CRANBROOK CITY COUNCIL
Public hearing tonight for OCP, Zoning Amendments A R N E P E T RYS H E N
Tonight’s council meeting will include a public hearing for amendments to the Official Community Plan and the Zoning Amendment Bylaw with re-
gards to a property on Theatre Road. The property is located on the southern edge of Godderies Road where it meets Theatre Road and is legally described as Lot 1, District Lot
27, Kootenay District Plan 5155. The proposed OCP amendment bylaw will change the land use designation of part of the property from Light Industrial to
Heavy Industrial. The proposed amendments to the will change the zoning bylaw designation of the property from an RT — Residential Transition Zone, to M-3 — Heavy In-
dustrial and Transportation Zone. The public hearing is a chance for the public to voice their comments on the proposal. The amendment will en-
able the consideration of subdivision of the subject property portion and lot consideration for the adjoining property to the south.