This month, a politician from Canada’s Liberal Party sent out a mailing to artsy types, urging them to vote Liberal, because the party truly cares about the arts. This was news to Martin Knelman. “Prior to that moment, few people in or out of the cultural world had any notion at all just what Dalton McGuinty’s view of arts and culture might be… If the arts are so important, why have the Liberals had so little to say that hardly anyone of my acquaintance knows anything at all about their policies?” Of course, none of the major parties have had much to say about the arts lately, but at least no one else is parading around like some sort of cultural savior.