Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Harper Hates Books

According to an article on CBC.ca Margaret Atwood has acussed the Harper Government of trying to squash the arts, especially the literary arts.
"They basically just hate us," she said in an interview with CBC Radio. "You know it’s people who have never seen any arts in their own lives — they would rather not have gardens, they would rather have parking lots. They just think it’s a frill probably."

According to the Writers Uniion of Canada, in 2002 cultural industries were responsible for more of Canada's Gross Domestic Product than Oil and Gas or Forestry.

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