Members of the Commons heritage committee are demanding an inventory of 132 works that vanished from a $14.4 million federal Indigenous Art Collection, largest of its kind in Canada. Conservative MP Rachael Thomas (Lethbridge, Alta.) said mismanagement by the Department of Crown-Indigenous Relations was “despicable.”
“but more than 130 valuable paintings, sculptures, and other artworks have vanished from a multi-million dollar federal collection”
“Recent purchases include a $64,000 sculpture by Toronto artist David Ruben Piqtoukun, $32,600 for three inkjet prints by Ottawa photographer Meryl McMaster, $12,500 for a sculpture by Victoria’s Chris Paul, and $9,500 for a print by Winnipeg artist Scott Benesiinaabandan”
Doesn’t sound like my definition of Indigenous art when cameras, canvas, sculpture and Inkjet printers are involved. Sounds like an imitation of a European- Western art collection.
Agreed.
No doubt stolen. Most like by people whose jobs are to serve the public, but mostly serve themselves.
And are they really worth that much?
If the art qualification standard is anything like the Chicago Way, the minister and the fine arts experts who make up the acquisition committee received kickbacks and bribes of taxpayer money.
Check Justin & Katy’s closets
Public Works should be called Public Thieves.
Is this #93 or #94 on the Shithole Verification Ledger?
They should ask Evan Solomon.
Har!
2026 Canada Day celebrations will be officially cancelled and flags flown at half mast.
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#BringThemHome
Recent purchases include a $64,000 sculpture by Toronto artist David Ruben Piqtoukun,…
Uh huh. I think I see the problem.
Something like this:
… “scientifically-significant remains… claimed and destroyed by political activists”
… “they claim ownership over what questions can be asked about the past, and the very words used to ask them.”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/11/06/follow-the-science-15/
Follow The Science November 6, 2025 Back to the Dark Ages:
https://www.palladiummag.com/2025/10/17/the-birth-and-burial-of-evolutionary-science-in-australia/
Maybe the pieces are buried near the site of an Indian residential school…
I had the same thought!
But, perhaps they’ve buried them elsewhere – to create more ‘sacred’ ground.
I think you might be on the “Trail of Truth”.
“They noted some of the missing works were known to exist but could not be recovered . . . “
Interesting phrasing.
Again, check Justin & Katy’s closets
How many dream catchers do you need?
And as usual the mealy-mouthed use of passive voice: the artworks “vanished” – no, someone took them. The security cameras weren’t installed — no, someone failed to take even the most basic precautions for safe storage. Recent purchases included — no, someone squandered taxpayers’ money buying artwork to stick it in a warehouse. Sheesh! And who the #@!! is fleecing the Canadian taxpayer to buy artwork anyway, especially when there is no obvious place to display it?
Remember back in the day when your neighbor had his house broken into and though you KNEW his VCR was the $120 “Dynacord” model he may have found at a garage sale for $10, he still put in an insurance claim saying it was the new Sony or Panasonic model and he’d paid $480 for, along with all the finest tools from his garage…
Either sell it or return it to the Tribals… we don’t need a strategic Tribals Art Reserve.
Well then … next year the government should DOUBLE the Injun Art procurement budget. And finally get those Radio Shack cameras installed.
A lot of this “art” is probably priced similar to the pricing of a Hunter Biden original “art”.
It’s all Hunter Biden art.
Didn’t I read that one of the pieces was … “dot matrix art”? Facepalm.
Oh! “Inkjet prints” per Scar below … still Facepalm.
“$32,600 for three inkjet prints by Ottawa photographer Meryl McMaster?”
$32,600 for three photos printed on an inkjet? Is everyone who works for government an effing retard? In my research I noticed she had endless shows but before I got bored I couldn’t find any artwork for sale or sold in popular auctions.
Back when I had an office I bought something like a dozen or two paintings by known Canadian artists, many 100 years old and I don’t think I spent more than 6 grand.
It’s grift, plain and simple.
Give anyone a government cheque book, the grift will follow.
“Is everyone who works for government an effing retard? ”
Clearly a rhetorical question.
Conservative MP Rachael Thomas
Ah, yes, the brilliant Rachel Thomas, who couldn’t tell me during a phone conversation what the current atmospheric CO2 concentration was, despite the fact that her party was pushing the entire Globull Warmening creed.
She, too, can KMHUA.