<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-CA" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="m_680588669952815703WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Attached please find a letter from Susan Jackson, Chair of the BC Arts Council.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">BC Arts Council Secretariat</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i>The Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture acknowledges that it carries out its work on the land of Indigenous nations throughout British Columbia. We are grateful for the continuing relationships with Indigenous people in B.C. that develop
through our work together. We acknowledge and raise our hands to the Lkwungen people, known today as the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations, on whose ancestral lands we operate our main offices. <u></u><u></u></i></p>
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