The Canada Council’s director for the past eight years, Robert Sirman, looks back at troubled times for the arts.

Robert Sirman served as director and CEO of the Canada Council for the Arts from June 2006 to June 2014, following a distinguished career at Canada’s National Ballet School, the Ontario Arts Council and Ontario’s first Ministry of Culture. In January 2015 he will become a senior fellow in Arts Management at the University of Toronto Scarborough.

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