Posted on 23/01/04
New Heritage boss reassures arts world
Hélène Chalifour Scherrer, the newly-appointed Heritage Minister in Paul Martin's government, would like to assure the world that she does indeed go to the opera.It's also true, she admits, that "I love sports, and my curriculum vitae looks that way." She is alluding to her now-famous reply to a reporter who asked her several days after her appointment which aspects of culture most interested her. She replied, tongue in cheek, "Sports," and quickly learned that an anxious culture community has very little sense of humour about this sort of thing.
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