Mr. Speaker, the demise of the Canadian Conference of the Arts is directly related to its critical opinion of the controversial copyright reform. When the organization shared the concerns of artists from across the country, it suddenly lost its funding. The transitional assistance provided and the time allocated for the transition were insufficient, which was fatal for the organization.
The Canadian Conference of the Arts lost its funding because it expressed a dissenting opinion. The minister had a choice between spending $25 million to rename a museum or spending less than $400,000 to save an organization that helps hundreds of thousands of artists.
How can the minister justify his choice?