Article content continuedThese are some of the few scraps of Canadian screen content that viewers in the rest of the world have shown any interest in watching. And now they’ll be tossed in a memory hole by the same government bureaucrats who bankrolled them in the first place. Yet many Canadian artists — and even the bureaucrats who fund them — now seem far more enthusiastic about blacklisting stories than telling them. If you look down cancel culture’s Canadian victim roster, you’ll find a surprising number of card-carrying progressives who’ve dedicated much of their careers to Indigenous storytelling. At Canadian Art magazine, meanwhile, an Indigenous writer tried to cancel Cree artist Kent Monkman, on the basis that his blockbuster success with a white international audience constitutes proof that he’s betrayed his ancestry.

Source: National Post December 29, 2020 17:37 UTC