That's a big question. The major challenge here is that the European countries we're most familiar with, the western European countries, make a major public investment in arts practice that far exceeds the investment from any other part of the economy. For example, it would be perfectly normal for a theatre company, a dance company, a symphony, an orchestra to be totally funded by government in a European context, which is not the model we use in Canada and certainly not one we're familiar with in North America at all. It's hard for me to draw a relationship there.
On May 30th, 2006. See this statement in context.