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Success Stories
Keeping significant cultural property in Canada
Canada does not prohibit the export of cultural property. However, under the
Cultural Property Export and Import Act, it does control this process, by requiring
that cultural property export permits be issued for objects included in the
Canadian Cultural Property Export Control List. The purpose of these controls
and of the appeal's process to the Canadian Cultural Property Export Review
Board is to create a time-frame during which Canadian institutions are given
the opportunity to acquire significant items of cultural property that would
otherwise leave Canada. By offering interested designated Canadian institutions
financial assistance for the purchase of such items, the Department's
Movable Cultural Property Grants Program also exists to achieve this purpose.
Here is a partial list of significant cultural property that, through the export
controls process and the grants program; institutions all around the country
have successfully been able to keep in Canada.
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