Then this press release would be it.
Here's the government of Canada giving $270,000 to the Calgary Folk Festival, funding that came out of the Marquee Tourism Events Program and the Calgary MP who happens to be Minister of State for Tourism, Diane Ablonczy, is nowhere to be found. Instead, it's Ontario MP and Industry Minister (and heavy metal fan, I might add) who is handing out the cash.
Meanwhile, on the same day a few hours earlier, Conservative MP Randy Kamp gets to have his name on the press release and earn a little local political credit when he hands out $16,000 for a local heritage initiative in Mission, B.C. That's the way it usually works: If the money is going to benefit voters in a region or a riding, then the MP from that region or riding puts their name on it.
But after giving money to Toronto's gay community, Ablonczy is in the dog house and on the sideline for her own tourism program, freeing up Clement to make sure gay communities do not get money but that chamber music festivals do, in fact, get marketing money three days before their event gets underway.