This video was created by a few Québec artists to denounce the
cuts in cultural funding by the Conservative governement, led by
Stephen Harper. This version includes english subtitles.
When
Beau Dommage's Michel Rivard visits a newly formed governmental
committee overseeing cultural financing, language gaps and cultural
misunderstandings abounds, mostly when Rivard plays his classical song,
"La Complainte du Phoque en Alaska" (The Complaint of the Seal in
Alaska)...
The video, linked to in the Globe and Mail, has received upwards of 650,000 hits now. It's the most viewed video at YouTube's Canada video page today.
