Cultural subsidy

A cultural subsidy is a payment to cultural industries to ensure that some public policy purpose in culture (e.g. multiculturalism, bilingualism, Canadian Content[?], the French language, preservation of ballet or opera or circus arts) is preserved or perhaps overtly promoted as superior.

They are considered a form of industrial subsidy usually by their opponents, and a form of public interest communication, such as public broadcasting, by their supporters. A common means of providing a cultural subsidy is to have public broadcasters pay for program development.

See also: arts grant[?]