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Bill C-10, Canadian censorship.

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Joseph:

--- Quote from: Johnny C on 04 Mar 2008, 10:56 ---The tax credit is usually a hefty one. Making it more difficult to obtain based on moral standards is, in effect, a tacit form of censorship.

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Doesn't the bill also not allow funding through the Canadian Council for the Arts towards Canadian material deemed innapropriate?

Slick:

--- Quote from: jeph on 04 Mar 2008, 13:23 ---What I'm wondering is, who benefits by this? I wasn't under the impression that the Canadian government pandered to the hypocritical Christian moral compass like the US did.

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The government isn't pandering to those people, the government is those people.
Canadian politics in thirty seconds:
Federally there are:
* The Liberals
* The Conservatives
* The New Democratic Party
* The Green Party
* The Bloc QuebecoisFirst, you only vote for the bloc if you are a Quebec sovereigntist. Then, you are probably either a conservative or a liberal. You may sympathize with the ideology of the leftist NDP, but you'll probably vote Liberal instead because a) the NDP are inexperienced at governing and b) no one thinks they'll win so you'd rather just make sure the Conservatives don't win. You may like the Green party, and they're almost a real party now, but you still will probably vote Liberal because you don't want the Conservatives to win.
Usually there is a Liberal majority or a Liberal minority propped up by the NDP (the latter is my favorite so far). From time to time, though, either a) the Liberals will screw something up, and/or b) people will get tired of them, and then the Conservatives get power (when they're not off fractioning into three or four different Conservative parties.
That's it 'in a nutshell'.

Right now, the Conservatives are in power, and they are pushing their own agenda. Problem is, as I see it, people vote for them because of their fiscal points (not all of which I agree with) and to avoid the corruption that grows up in the old, power-cosy Liberals, and get stuck with their social points.
I do not like the Conservative party. Not much at all.

KharBevNor:

--- Quote from: Uber Ritter on 04 Mar 2008, 14:06 ---The UK already has its ban on 'extreme' pornography, so some sort of censorship of 'egregious' material doesn't necessarily require a massive portion of the voting public to be socially conservative Christians.

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Fun fact! That's still not actually a law. There's a version of it tacked on to another bill that's still in Lords Committees.

I find the idea ridiculous and dangerous. Censoring the production of material which, at the end of the day, harms absolutely no-one, is bad enough, but criminalising the very possession?

Johnny C:
Astoundingly enough, the Canadian government actually panders to this guy. I'm not using him as a broad stereotype. They literally cater to the morality of that one dude.

CEOVanilla:
Wait, this got through the House of Commons? I'd have thought the Bloc, Liberals and NDP would have voted against it.

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