In the Globe and Mail recently, Canadian millionaire (and supporter of the arts) Sir Christopher Ondaatje called on the private sector in this country to support the arts.

Ottawa’s planned National Portrait Gallery has suffered under several - equally stagnant - government administrations, and now word is that it might be moved to Calgary, where the private sector can make it happen. Ondaatje, a Toronto businessman turned London-based philanthropist and author, has supported the Royal Ontario Museum and helped fund an extension to England’s National Portrait Gallery in 2000.

“Canada’s private sector must take leadership,” Ondaatje said, speaking from London. “Canada has been a nation of hit-and-run millionaires. In America, they stay put. Canada’s [rich] must get involved.”

Read the article HERE