Free To See

Vancouver mayor Sam Sullivan has announced that he has a dream; to see Christ's birthday week as the time when we can all go to a local museum at no cost. This idea is part of the development of a long-term cultural strategy for Vancouver and the mayor uses Paris as the model where they offer free admission to public museums and galleries over the x-mas holidays.

It might please the mayor to know, that while he spoke of the one week a year of free museum entry in Paris, he failed to mention that there is one day every month that entry to museums is free. And Paris is far from the only city in the world to offer this deal. In short, I support the idea, but I believe it should go further and that we should be aware that this is absolutely not an innovative concept - in fact, we're far behind most in the appreciation of science, art, or anything else a museum can be built for.

Just ask Harper, his Conservative Party used the last budget to cut the already paltry funding to our country's smaller underfunded museums forcing many to close.

Asshole.