Did I miss the post?
The recent posts about Chinese film censorship made me think about our own government’s proposed censorship bill. Many of the local artists, filmmaking unions, film publications and newspapers have spoken out against the bill.
Cbc’s article about the bill, in which Cronenberg proclaims, “It sounds like something they do in Beijing. You have a panel of people working behind closed doors who are not monitored and they form their own layer of censorship.”
From the National Post:
“Today, however, Bill C-10, a lengthy omnibus bill of technical changes to tax law, is the national scandal of the week. It has raised fears that Canadian film and television producers will have to win approval from a bureaucratic star-chamber of censors in order to get the funding that is their lifeblood, or that banks will be less likely to take a risk on projects that might be deemed offensive. And it has drawn the condemnation of everyone from the leaders of arts unions to the mayor of Toronto, who called it a “serious attack on Canada’s film industry, which is centred in Toronto.”
