....BUT do it with your own nickel. Next I would like to see them put forward a bill or a regulation by the CRTC that would allow subscribers to select the programing they want rather that the garbage bundled with most of the cable offerings. Why do I want BBC news as part of my bundle, etc.
New Tory bill amounts to 'censorship': Sarah Polley
Updated Thu. Apr. 10 2008 6:05 PM ET
CTV.ca News Staff
Oscar-nominee Sarah Polley, and other prominent members of the Canadian entertainment industry, appeared before the Senate Thursday afternoon to condemn a Conservative bill they say amounted to "censorship."
Polley said Bill C-10 -- which would allow the government to refuse tax credits to film or television productions deemed offensive -- will drive filmmakers out of Canada.
On Mike Duffy Live, Polley said that the bill's definition of "offensive" is "extremely vague and dangerous to be using."
Conservatives issued a combative response - releasing a press release attacking Polley's left-wing political ties and suggesting that artists had no business telling "hard-working Canadians" how their tax dollars should be spent.
If passed, the bill would allow the Department of Heritage to block tax credits -- and therefore massive amounts of funding -- to productions deemed to be morally lacking.
"Any whiff of censorship is chilling for us," Polley said in a news conference in Ottawa before the Senate hearing.
"It's the job of artists to provoke and to challenge. Part of the responsibility of being an artist is to create work that will inspire dialogue, suggest that people examine their long-held positions and, yes, occasionally offend in order to do so."
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