Ordinary People ...
It is election time here in Canada. I wish that just one time I was in a position to feel like I am voting for the best candidate to run this wonderful country of ours, instead of feeling it is more about picking the leader who offends me the least. Harper it seems is offending me the most, when I read this article in today’s newspaper. I am unsure where these grants and rich gala receptions are being held but here in my world all the artists I know work a “real” job so they can be artists. Prime Minister Stephen Harper has sparked a culture war in the federal election campaign with a claim that "ordinary people" don't care about arts funding. The Conservative leader yesterday said average Canadians have no sympathy for "rich" artists who gather at galas to whine about their grants. "I think when ordinary working people come home, turn on the TV and see a gala of a bunch of people at, you know, a rich gala all subsidized by taxpayers claiming their subsidie