“Important commentary. The Minister is concerned about ‘conspiracy theory’ when the truth is ‘evidence-based’. The Conservative Government has consistently treated the Arts as a fluffy unaffordable excess of elites instead of a multibillion dollar industry that like other industries also benefits from ‘stimulus’ and stable and predictable funding. Summerworks is an important juried festival. The Fringe Festival is a lottery. While in high school, our son Ben had his play ‘Indifferent Eyes’ chosen for ‘Summerworks’. It was well reviewed in NOW and EYE and he then went on to graduate in Theatre Arts at York. Funding ‘Summerworks’ is an inexpensive way for the Federal Government to support the writers, directors, actors and actresses that will continue to contribute the Canadian economy and our Canadian identity.
Carolyn Bennett M.P., St. Paul’s”