[BCMA] CMA Clip Serv: No cash for rights museum

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Is there no such thing as a real, actual budget  *anymore?*

2009/12/21 Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv. <bcma at lists.vvv.com>

>  Holy hobo jungle, Batman!
>
>     This latest demand for $45 million extra cash from the Aspers in
> Winnipeg reminds me of the Great Depression tale in which a woman answering
> her door met a bum who said, "Lady, I've got a button here; will you sew a
> shirt on it?"
>
>     When will governments ever learn that leverage in museum-building by
> special interests really means the latter prying ever more money out of the
> former's tax revenues/budgets instead of simply using the initial grants as
> seeding tactics to attract the rest of the needed cash from private sources?
>
>     Truly its smoke and mirrors.
>
>     Any bets on how long the Feds hold-out on this latest demand from the
> yet to materialize CMHR?
>
> Dan Gallacher
>
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> *Subject:* [BCMA] CMA Clip Serv: No cash for rights museum
>
> *Request denied*
> *No cash for rights museum*
> Paul Turenne, Winnipeg Sun, Sunday, December 20, 2009
>
> Two of the three levels of government have officially declined a request
> for more money for the construction of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.
>
> While the provincial government has yet to make a decision on additional
> capital funding, the federal government and the City of Winnipeg have both
> been approached for funding beyond their original contributions -- $100
> million and $20 million, respectively -- but both have denied the request in
> no uncertain terms.
>
> "They definitely asked for more money. I think the City of Winnipeg has
> made a significant contribution ...between our cash contribution and our
> services in kind it was about $20 million. That's a significant
> contribution to a significant project. I basically told them they should
> continue to go out there and find private sector money," Mayor Sam Katz told
> the Winnipeg Sun.
>
> Federal Treasury Board President Vic Toews expressed a similar opinion.
>
> "The government of Canada has been very clear in its discussions with the
> Friends of the Museum that the federal government will not be contributing
> additional capital funds for this project," Toews said. "I believe that the
> $100-million capital contribution and the multi- million dollar commitment
> to ongoing operational expenses is a very generous expression of our
> government's commitment to this project."
>
> Toews declined to say when the museum's backers last asked for more money,
> but a source said a few months ago they did approach Ottawa with a request
> for more capital funding and were denied.
>
> A spokesman for Premier Greg Selinger said the Friends of the Canadian
> Museum for Human Rights have asked the province for more capital funding
> beyond its initial $40 million contribution. The province is still
> considering the request and discussions are ongoing, he said.
> *
> *
> *Contribute*
> Last summer Friends campaign chair Gail Asper said she would be going back
> to all levels of government and asking them to contribute to help make up
> for a $45-million shortfall in capital that the museum determined last
> spring it will need on top of its original $265 million estimate, largely
> due to inflation in construction materials and labour.
>
> Asper said she would be asking for amounts similar to the ratio of the
> original contributions, meaning about $3 million from the city, $7 million
> from the province and about $17 million from Ottawa.
>
> The Friends have privately raised $7 million of the additional $45 million
> to date, for a private sector total of $112 million.
>
> Angela Cassie, director of communications and public engagement with the
> museum, said fundraisers are still speaking with all of the original donors,
> including the city, the feds and the province.
>
> "We're continuing those conversations. In the meantime, what we're finding
> is the private sector is leading the way, which is a really important signal
> to all of our original funders," she said.
>
> "We still have a lot of confidence this is completely achievable. Of course
> we want these original stakeholders to be part of it."
>
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