Max Wyman spent 35 years as a critic at the Vancouver Sun before retiring. Now he’s working on a manifesto intended to suggest a new relationship between government and the arts. “Intended as a tool kit of public debate, the manifesto calls for a new cultural contract between government and the governed. Its central thrust is the belief that culture, like health and education, is not only an unassailable human right but essential to the social and ethical well-being of society — and should be fostered and funded appropriately.”