Jim Henshaw has been in and around the Canadian stage and TV scene for nearly four decades, first as an actor and most recently as a producer, screenwriter, and playwright. I don't know for sure but, given his long association with Canada's performing arts, I'm going to bet that some production he was associated with somewhere along the way was put up with some help from a government arts grant. That's probably all the context you need for this interesting post Henshaw put up at his blog yesterday. It starts like this …
One of the dead horses regularly whipped on this blog concerns the disconnect between artistic or commercial achievement in Canada and the awarding of successive government grants.
For reasons that I've never been fully able to understand, there are organizations and individuals resident here who, despite repeated failure at either finding or entertaining an audience and with nothing but red ink on their balance sheets, still somehow manage to be handed additional tax-payer funded millions to once more fail or disappoint with their next attempt …
Click on to see how it finishes …