The Canada Council's postmodernist doctrinal conformity requirement for applicant artists is now unequivocally explicit (nevermind the dubious perfunctory lip service to "free expression".)

Here's Merriam Webster's first entry for 'appropriate'
Definition of appropriate
appropriated; appropriating
transitive verb
1
:  to take exclusive possession of :  annex —["No one should appropriate a common benefit."]

Now ask: who is trying to take "exclusive possession of" certain selected cultural expressions? And who is arguing for free expression?

Yes, Virginia, these are mutually exclusive objectives...

This postmodernist rejection of universal rights to free expression has been debunked by numerous mainstream intellectuals, writers, artists, in the pages of the New York Times, Washington Post, etc.

So, why do our bush league Canadian bureaucrats and lightweight pop media types keep falling for this stuff, over and over like this?

Fringe left irrationality threatens to swamp liberalism.