Four MPs—Haagen Poppe, Tone Wilhelmsen Trøen, Anna Molberg, and Tage Pettersen—proposed establishing a committee to develop a Norwegian cultural canon: a list of significant works in Norwegian art and cultural heritage. The Standing Committee on Labour and Social Affairs, with a majority from the Labour Party, Progress Party, Socialist Left Party, and Green Party, recommends rejection. The Conservative Party and Christian Democratic Party submitted minority proposals backing the initiative with variations.
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The Storting requests the government establish a committee to develop a proposed Norwegian cultural canon—a list of the most important works in Norway's art and cultural heritage.
The Storting requests the government establish a committee that, grounded in the Constitution Section 2 and our Christian and humanistic heritage, develops a proposed Norwegian cultural canon—a Norway canon—a list of the most important works in Norway's art and cultural heritage.