it's that same old cannonball coming back for your heart again "Tories Propose Morality Clause On Film Tax Credits"

...the amendment to Bill C-10 could allow tax credits to be cancelled even if government funding has already been secured, potentially stranding the development of a television show in pre-production or bankrupting a film in mid-production.

A closed-door panel of representatives from both the Heritage and Justice departments would decide what content is too sensitive for freethinking adults to manage their own exposure to. Annette Gibbons, a representative from Heritage Canada, says that the enhanced powers of censorship are merely a minor revision to the existing act, stating, "It's our responsibility to ensure that public funds are not invested in certain types of material, such as hate propaganda, excessively violent material, or pornography."

It is even more disturbing to discover that an evangelical activist claims to be behind this new proposal to police the morality of Canadian artists. Well-known partypooper and self-proclaimed Harper pal Charles McVety (right), president of the Canada Family Action Coalition, says that non-right-wing "values" are unwelcome in the Canadian entertainment industry—including sexual content devoid of any educational value, and, unsurprisingly, depictions of homosexuality. McVety boasts that his lobbying of Conservatives like Justice Minister Rob Nicholson and Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day led to the revised draft of Bill C-10.

This it outrageous. All of a sudden it's all over Canadian media, but only after it has been passed in the House of Commons. I saw that McVety dude on CBC Sunday this morning and it chilled me to hear him talking about his opposition to spending "family budgets" on Canadian film projects; since when are tax dollars designated solely for families? I'm going to be doing some research on the matter to see what can be done about it. As soon as I find out who I can email, they will be hearing from me.

I'm becoming a bit of a letter-writer lately (an interview with a sobbing Brenda Martin on CBC radio this week really got to me). My gig at the unnamed Crown Corp has made me aware of how correspondence from the general public is handled in government: it's addressed! ALL of it! So if you feel passionate about something, find out who's in charge, and whip off an email. It's my new hobby.  | ¶ 12:39 p.m.