Tories kill arts grants for foreign travel
Funding 'Activists'
OTTAWA - The federal government will cancel a program today that sent artists abroad to promote Canadian culture because the program's grant recipients included "a general radical," "a left-wing and anti-globalization think-tank" and a rock band that uses an expletive as part of its name.
The Conservatives are cancelling the $4.7-million PromArt program administered by the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade because most of the money "went to groups that would raise the eyebrows of any typical Canadian," said a government official, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The move is sure to provoke a backlash in the cultural community, already angry at the federal Conservatives for tinkering with the funding criteria for other arts programs, most famously for pending legislation that would prohibit federal funding of films and television shows the government might find offensive.
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thank GOD for common sense. That 4.7 million dollars can go to helping fund the what was it over 30 million bucks for the obsessive twice a day polling by Harper?
Whoops oh I know polls aren't that important.
Maybe Harper can take his polling budget and give that to help underprivileged kids.
Like that's gonna happen...
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