{"id":23185,"date":"2023-04-26T01:29:35","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T01:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=23185"},"modified":"2023-04-26T01:29:35","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T01:29:35","slug":"house-fails-to-recognize-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=23185","title":{"rendered":"House fails to recognize artists…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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House suspends after bill that recognizes Canadian artists fails to get a sponsor<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

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Manitoba Sen. Patricia Bovey\u2019s bill was supposed to be sponsored in the House of Commons by Liberal MP Jim Carr, who died in December. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published Apr 25, 2023 at 8:37am<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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OTTAWA \u2014 The House of Commons took an unplanned break Monday morning after no member of Parliament came forward to sponsor the legislation it was set to debate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The House was scheduled to tackle a bill that would have recognized the critical role artists and the arts play in every dimension of Canadian life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis will be the foundation for developing the necessary policies for the arts, museums and performance halls, art galleries, workshops, publishing houses and more,\u201d said Manitoba Sen. Patricia Bovey, the bill\u2019s sponsor, during a final debate last year. Senator <\/strong>Bovey is a Canadian art historian and former director of the Art Gallery of Victoria and the Winnipeg Art Gallery .<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Senator Pat Bovey’s sponsored arts bill fails to get House of Commons sponsor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Senate passed the bill in October.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was intended to be the platform for \u201cmuch-needed policy revisions, updates and parameters for the creative sector in this country, which is the third-largest employer in our nation and yet one whose creators comprise the largest percentage of workers living below the poverty line,\u201d Bovey said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bovey\u2019s bill was supposed to be sponsored in the House of Commons by Liberal MP Jim Carr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Carr died in December and no MP had been found to take his place on the legislation before it came up on the House schedule on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Speaker Anthony Rota was forced to suspend the proceedings for an hour until MPs were ready to take up the next item on the agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesperson for government House leader Mark Holland says it\u2019s up to MPs themselves to come forward to sponsor a non-government bill, and the government has no role in determining who sponsors them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than 600 people were involved in Bovey\u2019s consultations prior to her bill being tabled in the Senate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bovey, who is soon turning 75, is set to retire from the Senate on May 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Court Painter seen with thank you portrait of Senator Pat Bovey for her support of the arts!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

House suspends after bill that recognizes Canadian artists fails to get a sponsor Manitoba Sen. Patricia Bovey\u2019s bill was supposed to be sponsored in the House of Commons by Liberal MP Jim Carr, who died in December.  Published Apr 25, 2023 at 8:37am OTTAWA \u2014 The House of Commons took an unplanned break Monday morning after … Continue reading “House fails to recognize artists…”<\/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-23185","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\/23185","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=23185"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23199,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23185\/revisions\/23199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}