Happy Birthday, C.C.!

On March 28, 2007, the Canada Council for the Arts celebrates its 50th birthday. The LRC has been a grateful and happy recipient of Canada Council funds for many years, so we would like to mark the auspicious occasion with a commissioned work of art. In search of creative inspiration, we turned to Vancouver writer Bob Robertson, member of the famed comedy group Double Exposure, for a story.

I sat beside a very excited man on the plane yesterday. Long before the trolley arrived, selling us soggy vegetarian wraps for five dollars, he gleefully uttered, “I got my cheque from the Canada Council for the Arts!” And he waved it under my nose as if it might smell good (compared to the wrap, it wasn’t bad). “Congratulations,” I said, “and what will you do with this money?” “I’m mounting a musical,” he proclaimed. “The...