MICHAEL POSNER
From Monday's Globe and Mail
Alain Pineau was disappointed, but not terribly surprised, when the federal government last week announced it was ending PromArt, a $4.7-million cultural program administered by the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. After all, rumours of the demise of PromArt's travel grants to artists and arts organizations had been circulating for months.
But Mr. Pineau, national director of the Canadian Conference of the Arts - on vacation and cut off from the news - was shocked to learn yesterday that the Tories, late last week, had also decided to terminate Trade Routes, another cultural subsidy initiative, effective next year. "This is amazing," Mr. Pineau said. "I can't believe they would be so stupid. It's just provocative."
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2 comments:
Whea I read that money from these programs was helping anti-War, anti-American, British resident Gwey Dyer, I realized this "pork" spending needed to go.
Good for Harper for cutting Liberal grants to liberal causes.
Like many govt handouts, once you get a spot at the trough it goes on forever . . . time for a reality check . . . long overdue!!!
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