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Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean - Speech on the Occasion of the Presentation of the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts
Speech – March 22, 2006
Rideau Hall, Wednesday, March 22, 2006 It is an honour for me and my husband, Jean-Daniel Lafond, to welcome to Rideau Hall some of the greatest artists of our time. Particularly since this residence houses roughly one hundred works of art by Canadian painters and visual artists, past and present, w...
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His Excellency Jean-Daniel Lafond - Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts
Speech – March 22, 2006
Presentation of the Governor General’s Awardsin Visual and Media Arts March 22, 2006 I believe that the 20th century was a century of unwavering barbarism. And as this new century dawns, it too is already characterized by barbarism: a modern barbarism, an industrialized barbarism, mass barbarism. Ye...