No Portrait Gallery

You probably won't have heard about this since the media barely mentioned it, but the Conservative announced last Friday their intention to fully cancel the project to build a National Portrait Gallery. The project had already become something of a farce when the government tried integrate it with the EnCana corporate headquarters in Calgary. This is just the final nail on the coffin.

The Conservatives cited the economic uncertainty as their reason for canceling the programme. This argument might carry some credibility if the portrait gallery were that expensive to buil. But in reality, it costs less than 50 million dollars, petty cash for the Government of Canada (and less than the cost of an election)

The real cause is not economic uncertainty, it's ideology.