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Originally Posted by Ford Prefect

I'm going to make everybody mad because I'm a total free marketer. If the market doesn't support a company, industry or cultural event at a viable level then it should not be propped up by tax payers. Tax dollars should be used for national infrastructure, health care, social services, defence, etc., but not to prop up Bombardier, Air Canada, fishermen, farmers, automakers or even cultural events. The only exception I would make is for the arts, but the arts need to be defined a little more rigidly than they currently are.

There, have a whizzed in enough cereal bowls with that stance?

Out of curiosity: Why are 'the arts' an exception in your opinion?