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Re: Whole lotta hand-wringing over arts funding
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jsmith
And then of course there was this entertaining revelation by Gwynne Dyer that he was actually asked by Foreign Affairs to attend that conference in Cuba, and that he had never even heard of, much less applied to, PromArt.
What really infuriates me about all this is how the film and television industry is going to be impacted (and yes, I have a personal stake in this). Because those programs didn't just pay travel expenses for filmmakers and producers to take Canadian product abroad - they paid to have foreign buyers brought here, to our film and television festivals.
Conservatives are supposed to be pro-business. This is business. It's a $5 billion industry, and given that that industry, particularly in Toronto, is at death's door right now, you'd think that the federal government would be doing everything it could to help instead of... oh, never mind.
I guess some industries are more equal than others.
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