Stephen Harper and the Mysterious $86 Billion

Our friends on the Left in Canada are getting desperate. They know that most voters aren't buying their nonsense so this last week in the election campaign they're going to paint Prime Minister with any combination of the following:

• Scary
• Neo-con
• Bush-lite

And you may also hear about Harper cutting "$86 Billion in Arts Funding". When you do, require that the speaker or writer provide you a careful tally of how they arrived at this number. Then read this and this. You may very well come to the same conclusion I did: Artistic talent and basic math skills can't seem to fit into the same brain.