In any list of programs that could be easily cut without much disruption — except to a small rent-seeking elite — is arts funding. It cannot be argued as being essential to the functioning of society as in, say, infrastructure or courts, and a large share the benefits flow to the well-off.

Now in Canada, the Conservative government of Stephen Harper has come to that conclusion. In doing so, it has unintentionally exposed another reason to not establish such programs in…

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