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Do you have a special relationship with the province of Québec? When I was studying law at Queen’s University in Kingston in the ‘70s, I met many Quebecers at my house. I had a front row seat of the referendum, the FLQ, and what René Lévesque and Pierre Elliott Trudeau were thinking. Later, I went to some of the rallies in Montréal and I was disgusted that the English Canadians from Toronto only went to Québec to say, ‘We Love You!’ during the referendum. They had no interest in Québec during the rest of the year. So, I decided one day, if I can, I would do some cultural philanthropy in Québec. Fortunately,
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since the year 2000, I have been involved with the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. I did an exhibition about Francisco Goya’s prints from The Disasters of War. I officially joined the Museum’s Acquisition Committee in 2010, but I have also been very involved with donations and exhibitions for a long time. It’s been very interesting for me and it’s really enriched my life. One of the things that I am very happy about is that for the first time in Canadian history, we had a fundraiser in Ontario to support a Québec art institution. It was wonderful to bring together the art lovers from Montréal and the art
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