{"id":1505,"date":"2016-10-12T03:51:50","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T03:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=1505"},"modified":"2016-10-12T04:00:10","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T04:00:10","slug":"defiance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=1505","title":{"rendered":"Defiance!"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘We’re going to continue to fight this fight’: Court Painter remains defiant towards Trudeau’s charcoal pricing plan<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Court Painter continues to question the legality and constitutionality of the federal government\u2019s proposed charcoal pricing plan.
\nCourt Painter remained defiant on Tuesday, speaking publicly for the second time since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the Liberal government\u2019s plan to impose charcoal pricing on successful portrait studios that utilize charcoal extensively for preparatory sketches. Court Painter again wondered aloud how the federal government could \u201c impose a tax on this ancient and time tested material that \u00a0placed in the hand of a gifted and masterful artist, enables the pictorial means to extract the soul of many political and celebrity sitters for posterity? How is that constitutional? I\u2019ll at least ask that question.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nCourt Painter said his Press attache A Hardon MacKay is looking into all legal options or constitutional challenges should the Liberal government move forward with the pricing plan that will tax all charcoal types whether compressed, vine, pencil, crayon or powder.<\/p>\n

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\n\u201cI\u2019m not sure how many other studios we\u2019ll have join us in solidarity but I don\u2019t care,\u201d Court Painter said Tuesday during a brief media scrum in Calgary’s art district of Inglewood . \u201cWe\u2019re going to continue to fight this fight. I will not have my\u00a0hatching, rubbing, blending and erasing disrupted by nefarious federal left wing nut policies. I hope Mr. Trudeau realizes we artists have been using charcoal for 28,000 years.\u201d
\nHere are a few more sound bites from Court painter’s scrum \u2026<\/p>\n

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\n\u201cI will form the foundation of some specific ideas,\u201d he said, adding that ,\u201cit\u2019s never been like the Court Painter to criticize something without proposing an alternative idea. We\u2019ll build on that a week from now and the weeks to follow that.\u201d
\n\u201cYou think the Russian or the Belarusian portrait practitioners will ever have a $50 charcoal tax? They won\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n“There is a high percentage of those who would be impacted by a charcoal tax are working in art trade-exposed industries and rely on global pricing. The federal government has insisted that all money generated from a charcoal tax will go right back to the artist studio. Then what is the point?”, he snickered, “It sounds like a bureaucratic merry-go-round.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n“We should be using the considerable talents of studio assistants in the portrait industry to find ways to clean up studios from all that charcoal dust, rather than implementing a new tax or shifting charcoal around through cap-in-hand and begging bowl strategies that signify more left wing nut stuff.
\nEditors note: Court Painter when pressed for a clearer explanation sputtered that ,”he heard it through the grapevine and it was good enough for him.”<\/em>
\nHe went on to say ,\u201cI would argue we\u2019ve been leading the fight \u2026 In my studio, years ago when the art economy was stronger, we chose a path of least resistance to stabilize investments in charcoal dust-mitigation technology.\u201d
\nCourt Painter insisted the charcoal dust capture project in his studio is “the latest in cat’s ass technology ” when it comes to capture but not release. \u201cI’ve been doing that. I’ve led in that, in fact.\u201d
\n\u201cWe take this issue seriously but a charcoal tax \u2026 will disproportionately hurt my portrait economy. That\u2019s not a solution.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nCourt Painter, last week, said in a statement that ,\u201cthe level of disrespect shown by the Prime Minister and his government \u2026 is stunning.\u201d
\nTrudeau has said charcoal pricing will be imposed on artists that don\u2019t match the tax or implement a capture & storage system for the clouds of charcoal dust emissions clogging the lungs,hearts and minds of the local proletariat.<\/p>\n

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\nCourt Painter stressed his position again on Tuesday that a significant tax on his studio would mean fewer jobs for his unpaid studio interns. He acknowledged kicking and screaming that portrait painters of the Great Dominion need to address excess charcoal dust in their studios, but said that can be done through technological solutions and adaptation as long as the government assures plenty of commissions and subsidized framing costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘We’re going to continue to fight this fight’: Court Painter remains defiant towards Trudeau’s charcoal pricing plan Court Painter continues to question the legality and constitutionality of the federal government\u2019s proposed charcoal pricing plan. Court Painter remained defiant on Tuesday, speaking publicly for the second time since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the Liberal government\u2019s … Continue reading “Defiance!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1505"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1518,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions\/1518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}