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Newsjock

(11,733 posts) Mon Nov 9, 2015, 05:31 PM Nov 2015

Trudeau government re-hangs classic paintings removed by Conservatives

Source: CBC News

The Queen Elizabeth portrait is out and twin paintings by Quebec modern master Alfred Pellan are back in.

Today, the paintings Canada West and Canada East are back on display on the wall in the front reception area at the Foreign Affairs building in Ottawa, four years after they were taken down and replaced by a giant portrait of the Queen.

... Former Liberal foreign affairs minister John Manley called the move entirely appropriate and said displaying such a large portrait in such a prominent location sent "the wrong message."

"The Queen plays a constitutional role in Canada, but Canada should be recognized by all the people who come in to the department of foreign affairs or global affairs, building for the modern, independent country that it is," he told CBC News.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-foreign-affairs-art-queen-1.3310633

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Trudeau government re-hangs classic paintings removed by Conservatives (Original Post) Newsjock Nov 2015 OP

Something like this needs to happen in Maine ... eppur_se_muova Nov 2015 #1

Canada is not a colony any more; it's part of the commonwealth of former colonies. Manifestor_of_Light Nov 2015 #2

So he's hanging the Queen out to dry. YOHABLO Nov 2015 #3

Of America wants a model of liberalism and how to accomplish it, look to how the new Fred Sanders Nov 2015 #4

eppur_se_muova

(37,407 posts)

1. Something like this needs to happen in Maine ...

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Mon Nov 9, 2015, 05:39 PM

Nov 2015

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4824219

https://www.google.com/search?q=maine+painting+LePage+site%3Ademocraticunderground.com&sitesearch=democraticunderground.com&gws_rd=ssl

Manifestor_of_Light

(21,046 posts)

2. Canada is not a colony any more; it's part of the commonwealth of former colonies.

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Mon Nov 9, 2015, 05:42 PM

Nov 2015

Beautiful and colorful paintings, and representative of Canada, far more so than a picture of the Queen.

Good for Justin!! He's doing good stuff. His parents Pierre and Margaret would be proud of him.

YOHABLO

(7,358 posts)

3. So he's hanging the Queen out to dry.

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Mon Nov 9, 2015, 06:35 PM

Nov 2015

Fred Sanders

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4. Of America wants a model of liberalism and how to accomplish it, look to how the new

Reply to Newsjock (Original post)

Mon Nov 9, 2015, 06:35 PM

Nov 2015

much more leftist Liberal government in Canada does it, and the even more leftist New Democratic Party does it in government in Alberta.

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