[BCMA MBEN] Cuts to Youth Employment Programs? CAP Cuts Impact?

Thu, 12 Oct 2006 10:16:11 -0700

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<div align="left">The dominos continue to fall as a result of the federal funding cuts 
September 26...and BCMA is trying to keep the consequences front 
and centre before our MP's...</div>
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<div align="left">BCMA has been compiling data on the impact of cuts to youth 
employment programs in terms of real numbers, as we believe these 
to be far more grave and wider reaching, especially for small 
museums, than the cutbacks to MAP--which funded 30 BC institutions 
in 2003-04 and only 21 in 2004-05, (2005-06 figures not posted yet by 
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&quot;Due to the Privacy Act&quot;, as cited by the department of Human 
Resources and Social Development Canada, BCMA cannot obtain a 
central list of all BC museums and art galleries that sponsored Summer 
Career Placement students over spring and summer 2006.
Instead, we have to obtain individual riding-by-riding lists of program 
clients from BC MP's (now in progress), because MP's are required to 
sign-off on all federal-client agreements.
Therefore, we are asking BC museums and art galleries to quickly 
respond to BCMA-L or MBEN (&quot;members only&quot; dedicated listeserv) 
with the following information ASAP:
1. Did your institution receive student placements this spring and/or 
summer? (Institution Name?)
2. How many? Job Title(s)? For how long (number of weeks)?
3. Did you receive all positions you applied for? (ie. 3 of 4, etc)
4. Under what federal program? (ie. Summer Career Placement, 
Young Canada Works? Other-please identify?)
5. What was the $$$-value of your 2006 youth employment 
agreement?
6. Please list in point form how NOT having access to these, or similar 
youth employment programs, will have an impact on your institution:
 

ALSO: This week, CBC Radio 1 carried stories concerning cutbacks to 
the Community Access Program (CAP) that assisted with the provision 
of internet access and regional servers to enable public internet 
access, including through such public institutions as public libraries, but 
may also affect remote access via internet, in more rural areas. 
Details are still surfacing, but BCMA wants to know if your institution 
has been or may be affected (ie. regional servers) in the future by the 
loss or severe restriction of such service?
BCMA has added a discussion about federal program cuts to our 
Annual General Meeting agenda for Saturday, October 21st and 
having the latest information and examples of the impacts (it's plural) is 
important to this discussion.
Meanwhile, please keep your direct letters to your MP, Minister Oda, 
PM Harper coming. Please copy BCMA, (thanks to all of you who 
have), but also your MLA and mayor and council.
Thank you! See You at Conference 2006 next week!
--Jim
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<div align="left">Jim Harding, ED</div>
<div align="left">BC Museums Association</div>
<div align="left">(250) 356-5694</div>
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