State policy in the sphere of leisure as a component of the protection of national culture: experience of Canada

Abstract

Purpose of the article is to investigate the evolution of Canada's national policy for the protection of national culture in its leisure dimension by solving the following tasks: to analyse the content of safety of leisure practices, to consider the evolution of the state's relations with the leisure sphere in Canada, to reveal a change of patterns in Canada's public policy regarding leisure and to study its current state. The methodology of the research consists in application of general scientific principle of objectivity, analytical, cultural and comparative methods in researching the public policy in Canada and its integrated programs on supporting national cultural leisure industries, and extrapolating such problems to Ukrainian conditions as tested experience on protection of the national cultural environment. The scientific novelty of the research is the actualization of the positive experience of Canada's public policy in providing support for modern development of leisure and the possibilities of using such a model in Ukraine under the conditions of Russian cultural expansion (and, in fact, armed aggression) for protection and normalization of the functioning of the national cultural environment. Conclusions. Retrospective and modern analysis of the development of the cultural policy of Canada in the leisure sector shows that this area of public management is a complex set of legislative, financial and organizational measures in order to support the creation and dissemination of Canadian cultural product, to encourage a producer and a consumer of cultural services and leisure practices in the functioning of Canadian cultural industries with national content. Drawing attention to the similarity and complexity of the conditions for the existence of domestic cultural industries, the lack of attention to this sector by government authorities and management, it seems relevant to study Canada's experience in providing public policy in the field of national cultural industries in order to implement in practice general management model and principles of its implementation in Ukraine.