Hours after her appointment, Mélanie Joly, Justin Trudeau’s new minister of Canadian heritage, has pledged to double the annual federal contribution to the Canada Council of the Arts from $180 million to $360 million.  “I like to think that the Ministry of Canadian Heritage is the ministry of symbols, and after a Harper government of nine years, which was a Conservative government, it’s time to have a government that shows symbols of progressiveness,” she said.
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