Perhaps in response to an earlier post, a friend emailed me this interesting article which defends our ol boy at the helm.
I think Linwood, as usual (insert boneheaded burlington wanna be cool guy insult here), is missing the point.
It’s not about Stephen Harper being able to relax and choose what he reads. It’s about educating the ol boy that the Arts matter and that Mr. Martel is using it as a public awareness tool about how little the gov’t contributes to the Arts either monetarily or in any other form of lack lustre support.
Linwood’s suggestion that Martel send bookstore gift certificates to Harper is an indirect insult to libraries and the expert readers’ advisory services we provide. I think that librarians and supporters of literature and the arts need to speak up against this article!
Thanks for commenting Krista.
I never even thought of it that way !