Canadian film industry in jeopardy?

The federal government of Canada is considering sending a bill that would put restrictions on movies that qualify for taxpayer support. Ottawa is imposing censorship on the film industry, and is to fund only those productions that meet the publics needs for a nice watered down family production. Well known Canadian director David Cronenberg, has called the legislation (officially known as Bill C-10) "a direct assault on the Charter of Rights and Freedoms."


I'm on the fence with this one. I'm worried that the freedom of speech right is being violated. But at the same time, I complain that there is too much violence, gratuitousness and sex. And is there any women on TV anymore that are over 30 and don't look virtually perfect in every way? It's a skew of reality. I wanna see some ugly chicks!


Not all Canadian films need to be funded by the government, but still, this country is pretty broke. It ruins it for the films that are funded. People are already watching mostly American movies with loads of gore. The more gruesome the better. I think this is just a way to cut the competition for the American film industry. Why? Because Americans own Canada and governments lie. 'nuff said.

Don't protest because they'll shoot you many times.

I've been thinking of starting another revolution like in the 60's. only without drugs.There's so many bad things happening around the world that one could protest about.I know protesting is dangerous and changes very little, but it's fun to be a pain in the ass to the powerful people that are messing everything up. I put up little notes and posters in stores about controversial things. I'm sure people rip them down but at least they read them first.

I want to start making some noise but I'm not quite sure how. Hopefully I won't get assassinated like all the other people that tried to make a difference. I made a list of all those who got assassinated by the bad guys that didn't want them to make a difference. Abraham Lincoln, Che Guevara, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, JFK, RFK, John Lennon, Malcolm X, Harvey Milk, James E Davis, Farag Foda...And that's just some of them! If you go to Wikipedia and search for listed assassinations you will find lists of bad guys and good guys that have been ended. A lot of the good guys consisted of journalists, human rights activists and politicians, socialists etc. Yes I've been thinking about protesting but then I thought about all the other people that have tried to make people aware and they were assassinated. I think I'll just sit on my hands and suggest that someone else do it. Too scary.

I'm reading a book called DO IT! by Jerry Rubin, published in 1970. My favorite quote is " a society that suppresses adventure makes the only adventure the suppression of that society." I thought that quote sounded familiar and then I remembered reading a similar quote in the new magazine Adbusters. (a magazine driven to make people aware of how their consumerism affects society) It reads " The society that abolishes every adventure makes its own abolition the only possible adventure." I wonder where they get their inspiration? Still it's very true.

There is a new bylaw to ban smoking in my town effective in the new year. Smokers will have to smoke only in their homes and on two bridges that are owned by the province. I'm sure there are a lot of smokers burdened by their addiction but they are still pissed about the new law. I think it's a bit too much because so many people are too addicted to quit. The law forces people to light up inside around their family. People that are against the law are taking to one of the bridges and protesting. I'm going too, even though I don't smoke. I just want to see what happens. Protesting in smaller tamer groups is much safer then trying to overthrow a corrupt govrnment, as sad as that sounds...