Harper's 'Moral Majority' comes to parliament Bill C-10 the Censorship Bill

[Sportsdude]

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government now will get to decide what is deemed appropriate for the canadian public. classic censorship 101. Sounds like the U.S. Catholic Church and their Bishops review of movies. The Bishops watch the movies and then tell the flock "oh this is not appropriate for your minds".

the future of canadian entertainment right here:

 The following movies have been evaluated by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishop's Office for Film and Broadcasting according to artistic merit and moral suitability. The reviews include the USCCB rating, the Motion Picture Association of America rating, and a brief synopsis of the movie.    [!--The reviews can be heard by calling 1-800-311-4CCC. The movie review line is updated each Friday and includes information about six theater releases and a Family Video of the Week.  For a full review of recent films, check your local Catholic diocesan newspaper.  --]  The classifications are as follows:
  [/p][ul][li]A-I -- general patronage; [/li][li]A-II -- adults and adolescents;  [/li][li]A-III -- adults; [/li][li]L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. L replaces the previous classification, A-IV. [/li][li]O -- morally offensive[/li][/ul]
at least the bishops are getting some what better. It used to be "morally offensive"  "morally objectionable in part for all,"  "condemned".




 

[Michel]

   

[Michel]

 
   

[Sportsdude]

Its a disturbing trend that the Harper government is doing.
Immigration Minister can now decide who they want into Canada.
Culture Minister can now decide what is deemed acceptable.

All these cabinet ministers having tolitarian power is frightening.

 

[Sawdust]

Wow. An Immigration Minister who decides on who can Immigrate. What a concept.

[purelife]

Sawdust wrote:
Wow. An Immigration Minister who decides on who can Immigrate. What a concept.

  Do you think there's a movie that explains everything we need to know about Canadian Gov't?  If so, I wonder if it includes hockey.  And I probably haven't seen it but OMG, we should know, right?!  LOL
 

[Sportsdude]

 purelife wrote:
[em]Sawdust wrote:
[/em] [em]Wow. An Immigration Minister who decides on who can Immigrate. What a concept.[/em]
  [/div]Do you think there's a movie that explains everything we need to know about Canadian Gov't?  If so, I wonder if it includes hockey.  And I probably haven't seen it but OMG, we should know, right?!  LOL

very funny...
The current system is based on points. what they are implying now is going back to the pick and choose what country they want immigrants from. For example, Harper used to lobby for the people who were against the "boat people" coming from Vietnam, he wanted them all deported back to where they came from. People like that now could theoretically depending on who is in power decide who comes to this country and who gets denied. We are going back to the days were governments had racist policies of x number of people allowed from here, x number allowed from there.  The system in place now is a system of merit. That will start to errode now.
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[Sawdust]

I'm sure we'll be told !

   

[purelife]

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[Lil Me]

Venezuela is censoring its tv shows.  The Simpsons is being removed
 
 (AGI) - Caracas, 9 April - Venezuela does not like the Simpsons. A television channel in the South American country has actually cancelled the screening of Matt Groening's series from the programme schedule. A spokesman from the Televen channel said that the cartoon was cancelled following continuous protests by several people to governing bodies, "we have had to cancel it because it was deemed inappropriate and not suitable for children". According to the watchdog the series contains "messages which set a bad example to children and teenagers", [/b]
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 And...what is replacing The Simpsons?
 BAYWATCH!  (no joke)
   

[Michel]

     
 

[Sportsdude]

tna wins every time.
in macedonia they watch german porn movies in the middle of the afternoon because everyone precieves the german porn as 'western' european and Macedonians want to be considered 'Western'.
 

[Van]

What I don't understand is why my tax dollars have to go to any TV show anyways? Or movie? Why can't the industry be privatized and grow from there? If it fails, so be it. It wasn't meant to be. Stop wasting my tax dollars on BS!