The Canadian arts community is pleased by the selection of Bev Oda as the new culture minister. But “some suggest that the concern isn’t about Oda, but the new drive to make the path of money through federal agencies more transparent and accountable. The worry is that this could slow down promised funding increases, particularly the past Liberal government’s pre-election promise in November to double the budget of the Canada Council for the Arts, the umbrella arts funding agency, in three years to $301-million.”