Canada is a democracy. If you're not happy with your representation, you should pick that up with your representatives. The way you describe being forced to pay sounds like you think you're living in an autocracy.
Art is awesome and brittle. It's very hard to make a living from art. Public funding of it is essential to a healthy society. And, i don't think that art that is funded publicly has to be popular. The goal is the opposite. Commercial art has to be popular enough to survive. The idea of funding it is to free the artists from those constraints.
Art is awesome and brittle. It's very hard to make a living from art. Public funding of it is essential to a healthy society. And, i don't think that art that is funded publicly has to be popular. The goal is the opposite. Commercial art has to be popular enough to survive. The idea of funding it is to free the artists from those constraints.