Taxpayers being abused by film funding: lobbyist
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/film/story/2008/02/29/mcvety-film.html#skip300x250
Bill C-10, an omnibus bill now before the Senate, includes provisions in the Income Tax Act that would allow the federal government to deny tax credits for films that are offensive or not in the public interest.Gee, that certainly wouldn't be open to abuse.
"I find it outrageous that government takes our hard-earned tax dollars and funds movies like Young People F---ing," McVety told CBC News, a clergyman who is careful not to say the offensive word.
Hey, it's my tax money too. Who the hell are you to say where it should be spent.
Instead, it[Canada Family Action Coalition] presented to officials in the Prime Minister's Office and worked with Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day and with backbench MPs who support its position.
"The government finally looked at this issue and agreed," McVety said. After a written presentation, "Verner responded and she did not want to keep funding for films like this."
You know, the one good thing about the current incarnation of the federal Tories is that every time I might be leaning to the thought that, maybe they aren't that bad, along bubbles up something like this. Thank God they don't have a majority ... yet. The real problem is that I don't think Dion and company have anywhere near the gonads to prevent Harper from getting his majority whenever the trigger gets pulled on the next election.
The idea that some closed-door committee (especially if this McVety character is on it) decides which Canadian films get funding and which don't is personally repulsive. Funding the arts is simply not about pushing a particular "moral" agenda.
What we need is folks to get pissed about this so that the opposition parties won't be afraid to squash this thing and send it back from whence it came.
Mike
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