March 21, 2007

by Her Excellency Michaëlle Jean

“I want to encourage artists and ensure that their contribution is recognized. I also want to give emerging artists the opportunity to be heard. What is important is to recognize that art—that free space where everything is allowed and everything becomes possible—has the power to rally energies, to make them take root and channel them, to offer solutions, to sustain aspirations and, in a very real way, to act.”