War artist protests destruction of parliamentary tradition
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Channel: Ottawa Citizen · 2013 · Entertainment
Visual artist Allan Harding MacKay, 67, of Toronto, previously hired by the Defence Department to work in Somalia and Afghanistan, ripped up five pieces of his war art on Parliament Hill on Thursday, May 10, 2012 to protest what he considers the destruction of Canadian parliamentary tradition.
