art is only for straight ivory tower elitists anyways, right?

In lieu of the recent Toronto Pride federal funding fiasco, the Harper Conservatives have recently turned down funding for a Montreal arts festival that is geared toward the LGBT community. With their poll numbers sinking lower and lower in La Belle Province and fully knowing the immense value and importance of arts, heritage and culture to the Québecois, you would think they would have handled this differently. But this comes as no surprise. This is a Reform Party Kodak moment: Harper thinks the arts is exclusive to elitists and the so-cons, like Brad Trost, will do anything they can to strategically outcast the LGBT community. Shocking? I expect no less.