Quote, unquote: Cultural program spending depends on your definition

During the final budgetary year of former prime minister Paul Martin's government, $18.06 of every $1,000 spent by the government was spent on cultural programs. That jumped in Harper's first year in government to $19.54 but by this year it has fallen back to about where the Liberals were at $18.23 of every $1,000 spent by the government.

-- From an excellent, long and detailed report by indefatigable blogger David Akin about support for cultural spending in Ottawa. He makes some very good points about the over-broad definitions that both Liberals and the current Conservatives use for what culture is.