The decision by Ottawa’s National Arts Centre (NAC) to abruptly cancel Shen Yun Performing Arts after 18 years of sold-out runs is no mere scheduling dispute. We don’t have to dig for too long to discover that there is a deep and institutional entanglement between the NAC’s own Board of Trustees and the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) economic and diplomatic web in Canada, and we can’t rule out that this could be the reason why Shen Yun had to be cancelled.