...whether its creators currently live full-time within our borders or not, I must admit to no small, continuing concern over the "New Conservatives" and their latest initiative: the cancellation of the travel assistance program known as "PromArt" run out of the Foreign Affairs Department effective March 31st, 2009.
You may want to take a further look at the Toronto Star's coverage of the matter here as reported by Richard Brennan.
Personally, I reject PMO Chief of Communications Kory Teneycke's implication that people who consider this decision to be Wrong do not count as "mainstream" Canadians. I never met a Canadian who was completely "mainstream" in my life. No such people in this country, by my lights.
Mr. Harper and company need to do a serious rethink of this decision. The need rises in at least a direct 1:1 ratio with their resistance to this suggestion.
And to provide some additional fodder for your consideration, some notes on some more of the less noted, more important casualties created by this decision from Runesmith's Canadian Content. Mull it over a bit, maybe?
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Dude, ya got it all wrong??
Plumbers in Landmark, MB are mainstream, Campaign Managers from Haldimand Norfolk are mainstream. Ranchers from Viking are mainstream.
Writers from Ottawa? Hell. Not Mainstream at all.
Why do you think this crew are destined to, for their duration, live in a minority?
Because they don't have the faintest hope of ever getting a seat in any big city.
Dude, I grew up in the prairies myself, from Selkirk to Grande Prairie. There ain't no such thing as "mainstream". Even there.
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