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Libertarian Party of Canada
Here are two positions that relate to Arts - subsidies and broadcasting/media.
http://www.libertarian.ca/english/positions-trade-economy.html
Subsidies
In order to achieve a free economy, in which government victimizes no
one for the benefit of anyone else, we oppose all government subsidies to
business, labour, education, agriculture, science, the arts, sports, political
parties, or any other special interest. We propose the elimination of all
government "job creation" schemes.
http://www.libertarian.ca/english/positions-individual-rights.html
Freedom of the Media
We oppose government control or ownership of any medium of
communication. Therefore we support the following: the repeal of all laws
prohibiting, licensing, regulating, taxing, or subsidizing the production,
sale, or advertisement of any books, magazines, newspapers, and films; the
abolition of media regulatory agencies, such as the Canadian Radio-Television
and Telecommunications Commission; the sale of such agencies as the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation and the National Film Board to private enterprise;
constitutional guarantees of free speech which would apply to all
communications media; and the development of an objective system of law
defining individual property rights to "air waves"
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Also, I would like to quote from the
19th century French economist Frederic Bastiat, who wrote The Law. He
believed that government is basically the use of force, and is legitimate only
as an extension of the right of its citizens to self-defense. He considered
socialism or the type of government we have in Canada or the type of
government he experienced in France to be organized plunder or theft.
He put it like this:
When justice is organized by law — that is, by force — this excludes the
idea of using law (force) to organize any human activity whatever, whether
it be labor, charity, agriculture, commerce, industry, education, art, or
religion. The organizing by law of any one of these would inevitably destroy
the essential organization — justice. For truly, how can we imagine force
being used against the liberty of citizens without it also being used
against justice, and thus acting against its proper purpose?
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