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Originally Posted by Trex
C-10 will not prevent anybody from writing anything, painting anything, filming anything, saying anything. If somebody wants to make a film on any subject, they are perfectly free to do it; nobody will stop them. If they wish to distribute that film, there will be no penalties. Nobody wishing to view it will be prevented. All C-10 does is prevent the public purse from helping them do it. That is not censorship; it is merely the refusal to support something. There is a big difference.
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Indeed. Free to do it, but unable to - The canadian film industry is in such a position, economically, that the only way for filmmakers to be able to film pretty much anything is to request federal subsidies. So cutting a project's federal funding essentially kills it.
Not to mention the fact that the law can be used to slew cultural production politically. And it opens the door to Sponsorship Scandal II: Gomery's Return.
If the government is going to send money toward culture, it shouldn't be a partisan thing. C-10 allows the insertion of a huge political bias into the country's entire film and television industry.