The Montreal company, which is setting out on a four-week tour that includes debuts in Egypt and Israel, “is short $150,000 because of the cancellation last year of Promart and Trade Routes, two government programs that supported the export of Canadian culture. … Alain Dancyger, Les Grands Ballets’ executive director, says corporate and private sponsors at home and abroad are bewildered that the Conservative government is not one of the tour’s supporters.”