Writer Anna Nicolle talks to Minister of Canadian Heritage Sheila Copps about some of the issues facing Canada in its effort to preserve its cultural diversity. I think you'd be more accurate to say that we both promote and protect Canadian culture. We both promote and protect culture because culture lies at the very soul of our identity as Canadians. Culture creates jobs, opportunity, hope and progress.
Culture brings people together.
Canada is the most open nation in the entire world to foreign cultural influences. And I want to keep it that way. What I'd also like to do is ensure some shelf space for Canadian stories and Canadian voices, both at home and abroad. A - Canadians make our art uniquely Canadian. We are a population of about 30 million sprinkled across a vast expanse of land.