I dont think Toronto etc creators reflect Canadian society at sll. They reflect their socialst masters ideas and people just dont care. I worked in the arts for ten years, grants, masters degree, jobs, knew everyone. They are all fucking Commies, and out here in the real world, people dont give a damn about anything they say or produce. I know Ken. He used to be brave. Now hes just another socialist grifter off the government.
You mention the $40 million Canada Book Fund. It is worth looking at how the government actually measures the success of that spending. I checked the Department of Canadian Heritage’s recent performance reports. They often list the "number of projects funded" as their main success metric. They rarely track if anyone actually bought the books.
It is a common theme in the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage. Witnesses often confuse activity with achievement. The Public Accounts (the government's annual financial statements) show this pattern everywhere. We keep funding the input side of the equation while ignoring that the output side is broken.
That's a point Kenneth White himself has made more than once. In the case of book funding, not only does the program not measure outputs, but they actually incentivize for mediocrity by excluding larger-volume publishers.
The dirty truth is that the vast majority of Canada Media Fund, Canada Book Fund etc. projects are barely consumed. Even the CBC is, for the most part, completely ignored by viewers and listeners.
Politics is downstream of culture. Canada's urban culture is increasingly Marxist. That the Jacobins, Nihilists, and Bolsheviks attracted to the state have been funding and or producing Canadian "culture" for many decades is analogous to politicians funding the Orwellian named NGOs for self-lobbying if not kickbacks. It's a feel good, nationalism spun form of criminal enterprise funded by involuntary taxation of the living through to the unborn.
A good start to this particular bit of tax payer funded government largesse would be to cut funding to the CBC and then start pruning the grant levels to other ideologically based “artistic” endeavours.
I dont think Toronto etc creators reflect Canadian society at sll. They reflect their socialst masters ideas and people just dont care. I worked in the arts for ten years, grants, masters degree, jobs, knew everyone. They are all fucking Commies, and out here in the real world, people dont give a damn about anything they say or produce. I know Ken. He used to be brave. Now hes just another socialist grifter off the government.
You mention the $40 million Canada Book Fund. It is worth looking at how the government actually measures the success of that spending. I checked the Department of Canadian Heritage’s recent performance reports. They often list the "number of projects funded" as their main success metric. They rarely track if anyone actually bought the books.
It is a common theme in the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage. Witnesses often confuse activity with achievement. The Public Accounts (the government's annual financial statements) show this pattern everywhere. We keep funding the input side of the equation while ignoring that the output side is broken.
That's a point Kenneth White himself has made more than once. In the case of book funding, not only does the program not measure outputs, but they actually incentivize for mediocrity by excluding larger-volume publishers.
The dirty truth is that the vast majority of Canada Media Fund, Canada Book Fund etc. projects are barely consumed. Even the CBC is, for the most part, completely ignored by viewers and listeners.
Politics is downstream of culture. Canada's urban culture is increasingly Marxist. That the Jacobins, Nihilists, and Bolsheviks attracted to the state have been funding and or producing Canadian "culture" for many decades is analogous to politicians funding the Orwellian named NGOs for self-lobbying if not kickbacks. It's a feel good, nationalism spun form of criminal enterprise funded by involuntary taxation of the living through to the unborn.
A good start to this particular bit of tax payer funded government largesse would be to cut funding to the CBC and then start pruning the grant levels to other ideologically based “artistic” endeavours.