CANADIAN GOVERNMENT WILL DENY FUNDING TO ALL FILMS THAT THEY DEEM INAPPROPRIATE
Canadian government officials from the Heritage Office have announced that they will immediately cut all funding to Canadian film producers that produce films that contain content the Conservative government does not agree with.
Charles Mcvety, a hard core right wing christian nut bar insists that he was able to pressure the government into making changes that would prevent the release of films that are partially financed through Telefilm Canada that might have topics including sex, homosexuality and violence. (that means we'll have absolutely nothing to watch except for those Big Al Tiny Talent Showcase reruns) he claims that he personally met with government officials and that he lobbied them extensively through the PMO as well as through Stockwell Day.
David Cronenberg(the fly director) says that edgy low budget films that have traditionally won big in the international scene will be at risk as well as TV shows that contain references to anything that the CONservatives' regime opposes.
CONServative MP Dave Batters says "the purpose of Telefilm is to help facilitate the making of films for mainstream Canadian society - films that Canadians can sit down and watch with their families in living rooms across this great country.(like that great canadian classic, Littlest hobo...oops, there was violence on that show...we'
ll have to cancel that one too)
The mission statement for Telefilm Canada goes something like this...
As a cultural investor in cinema, television, multimedia and music, Telefilm Canada is primarily concerned with the funding of original, diverse and high-quality productions that reflect Canada's linguistic duality and cultural diversity. Telefilm Canada also works to ensure the broadest possible dissemination of Canadian productions at home and abroad, and seeks to be a leading promoter of a Canadian audiovisual industry of international calibre.
I don't see anything there about them only promoting family films, but I suppose if the government wants to say things that aren't correct they are more than welcome to, afterall they are the government and the keeper of lies, and legally they have the right to censor the living hell out of all of us.
If we allow this government to remain another year we may be having public book burinings.
12 comments:
Charles McVety is a fundamentalist nutbar. I've seen video clips of the guy and he's barking mad. He's as crazy as any Islamic Fundamentalist and just as dangerous in his own way.
The fact that he and his kin have influence with the CPC is reason enough for me to hope that Harper never gets a majority.
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A rose by any other name...
If it walks like a duck...
This is state censorship, plain and simple. Arrrg....
"This is state censorship"
Not really. Refusing to fund something with tax money isn't censorship. Nobody's stopping any film from being made. They'll just have to get the funding elsewhere.
I'd like to see Telefilm Canada shut down altogether. I'd just as soon as not see my tax dollars being squandered making second rate art films ... or if McVety has his way, making animated Disneyesque bible stories.
Um, no. It is state censorship. Telefilm is run by the state, and they're censoring who gets public dollars and who doesn't based on their moral and value-based views. Particularly when without dollars, NONE of those movies (whether they like them or not) would be made.
Alternately, shut the thing down and let the market decide. You could argue the market censors, but at least it's through private dollars and not my taxes.
If Telefilm exists, then it should fund all, not just what the boss likes.
Hugo.
It ain't censorship. Refusing to give someone money isn't censorship. Stopping someone from making or distributing a film would be censorship.
Even if the decisions are based on McVety's twisted sense of morality it's still not censorship. It's goddam scary and stupid though.
Wait 'till Harper gets a majority with McVety in charge of public morality, then you'll see censorship.
State censorship is what's being done to Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn by the Human Rights Commissions.
CBC is arguing this topic today March 3rd so why don't you join in??
Charlene Smith/Woodstock,Ontario.
Say no to censorship.
Theres nodifference here from what they do,and you deleting comments of people you don't like.
Of course there is. This is Jim's blog. He owns it. He pays for it. He has every right to determine what content is on HIS blog.
So far he has shown no interest in trying to control the content on other peoples' blogs. THAT would be censorship.
If I were him I would delete much of this commentary as well. It's pretty blase.
Dontcha just love people that try to use pretentious french words but aren't bright enough to figure how to add the appropriate accent. :)
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