Canada’s ruling Liberal government is in trouble, hanging on to power by a thread and likely to be forced into new elections by year’s end. And while Prime Minister Paul Martin and company might have many residents of Canada’s largest city exasperated, Martin Knelman warns that an electoral victory for the Conservative party and its leader, Alberta’s Stephen Harper, would be a death knell for Toronto’s arts scene. “Alberta’s well-known resentment of Toronto’s presumed cultural superiority could find expression in a big chill for local arts funding.”