Toronto’s Art Gallery of Ontario is doing awfully well for itself these days, but even as it rakes in cash from private donors, reports are surfacing that the federal government has reneged on a pledge to come up with CAN$49 million for the museum’s major renovation and expansion project, and that the budget knife was wielded by the highest authority. “At the last minute, just before the final budget documents were sent off to be printed and translated, Prime Minister Stephen Harper stepped in and wiped out the $49 million.”