Federal Election 2025 Call to Action

📣 It’s Fed­er­al Elec­tion Time 📣

CDA is join­ing nation­al efforts to advo­cate and raise aware­ness on the impor­tance of vot­ing for the arts!

Until elec­tion day on April 28, 2025, you can get involved to make your voice heard.

🎯  In this fed­er­al elec­tion, CDA con­tin­ues to advo­cate for all par­ties to com­mit to invest­ing at least 1% of the fed­er­al bud­get on Arts and Cul­ture annu­al­ly (only a 0.06% increase) includ­ing a $140 mil­lion increase for the Cana­da Coun­cil for the Arts and $130 mil­lion for Cana­di­an Her­itage.

What you can do start­ing today:

1- Use the Cana­di­an Art Coalition’s ArtsVote Elec­tion­Toolk­it here. You will find a poster to put in your front win­dow and some infor­ma­tion, data and key mes­sages.

2- Make sure to engage with can­di­dates when they knock at your door. You can use the facts sheet here to help you start the con­ver­sa­tion.

3- Show your sup­port on social media by fram­ing your pic­ture.  Find the frames like this one below here in few dif­fer­ent col­ors.

We sug­gest the cap­tion : In this fed­er­al elec­tion I am ask­ing all par­ties to com­mit to invest­ing at least 1% on Arts and Cul­ture annu­al­ly (only a 0.06% increase). I vote for an increase to the Cana­da Coun­cil for the Arts and Cana­di­an Her­itage. Vot­ing with arts in mind sup­ports our com­mu­ni­ties’ health and well being.

Tag your can­di­dates in your rid­ing. You can find them here.

Tag if you want @liberalca, @cpc_hq, @ndpcanada, @blocquebecois, @thegreenparty_canada.

Use hash­tags #artsvote­cana­da, #oneper­cent­fort­hearts #art­mat­ters.

Tag @cdaacd @artscoalitionca so we can ampli­fy your post!

4- Attend local debates. To find a debate in your com­mu­ni­ty, you can search “cham­ber of com­merce, elec­tion debate 2025 Cana­da” and the name of your rid­ing. Local Cham­bers of Com­merce often organ­ise them but not only. You may be able to sub­mit a ques­tion in advance to the host orga­ni­za­tion (usu­al­ly a cham­ber of com­merce), and if so, please con­sid­er using this ques­tion.

5- Attend arts and cul­ture debates live or online.

In Eng­lish, in Toron­to, the Coali­tion for the Diver­si­ty of Cul­tur­al Expres­sions (CDCE) and OCAD Uni­ver­si­ty host a 90-minute elec­toral town­hall bring­ing togeth­er rep­re­sen­ta­tives from Canada’s main polit­i­cal par­ties.

Wednes­day, April 16, 2025, at noon East­ern Time, at OCAD Uni­ver­si­ty and online.

Con­firmed can­di­dates:

• Karim Bardeesy, Lib­er­al Par­ty of Cana­da

• Sandy Craw­ley, Green Par­ty of Cana­da

• Nor­man Di Pasquale, New Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty

Reg­is­ter here for in-per­son.

In French, in Mon­tre­al, the Coali­tion for the Diver­si­ty of Cul­tur­al Expres­sions (CDEC), Réseau Cul­ture 360°, Cul­ture Mon­tréal and HEC Mon­tréal’s Carmelle and Rémi-Mar­coux Chair in Arts Man­age­ment is orga­niz­ing a 90-minute debate between the main polit­i­cal par­ties on Mon­day, April 14, 2025, 3:30 pm East­ern Time, at HEC Mon­tréal.

This exchange will also be broad­cast live on the CPAC chan­nel. Mod­er­at­ed by jour­nal­ist-host Johane Despins, this enlight­en­ing event for the future of the cul­tur­al sec­tor will enable the can­di­dates to present their com­mit­ments.

Con­firmed can­di­dates :

Mar­tin Cham­poux — Bloc Québé­cois

Mar­wan El-Attar — New Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty

Steven Guil­beault — Lib­er­al Par­ty of Cana­da

Reg­is­ter here for in-per­son or livestream

6- Con­tribute a few words about what dance means to you and share it herewith the Coali­tion for the arts. It will build our com­mon case.

 💞Let’s all par­tic­i­pate in a col­lec­tive effort for the future gov­ern­ment to engage them­selves for dance and the arts!