"The ultimate goal of the Canada Council for the Arts is that Canada have a rich and vigorous creative life that stimulates the imagination and gives Canadians the means to share their spirit with one another and the world."
– Robert Sirman, Director

In 2007–2008, the Canada Council awarded more than $164 million in funding to individual artists and arts organizations in some 680 communities across Canada, the largest amount in its history. Find out more about the Canada Council's support to the arts in the past year through the stories, statistics and financials in the Annual Report 2007/2008.

News release: Canada Council for the Arts 2007-08 Annual Report highlights support to the arts and new directions. More...