When I was starting out as a writer in Canada I received grants from the federal, provincial, and municipal levels. I like to think that because these awards allowed me to complete books that were published internationally, and because I thus paid Canadian income tax on money earned abroad, I paid back anything given to me by the Canadian taxpayer.
The same also applies to any number of Canadian writers, artists, and filmmakers but, truth be told, a great chunk of the arts grant-giving and gr...
