The Arts and Culture Fist Fight

The Conservatives ignore the maxim of 'let sleeping dogs lie'

Stephen Harper slapped the arts community in the face with a wet fish last week. Ordinary Canadians, he says, when they come home from a tiring day at work, don't think the arts community has anything to offer them in terms of entertainment or in terms of a discipline.

The francophone community in Quebec has, perhaps, taken offense.

If this is perceived as English Canada snatching resources from the mouths of Quebecois artists it may revitalize the whole sovereignty debates. Again.

It's pretty funny as a video.

To make this video more understandable for you earnest anglos 'le phoque' is a seal and 'ti' is an abbreviation of 'petit', meaning 'little'.