Jack Layton and the NDP weigh in on Bill C-10

"I invite you to support our petition to rescind any provisions of Bill C-10 which allow the government to censor film and video production. Please find below copies of our House interventions and the petition."

What petition? There are no copies of these documents "below" or on Jack Layton's website.

Here is a link to Bill Siksay's statement about Bill C-10 and a link at the bottom to the petition (Word document to print out).
http://action.web.ca/home/billsiksay/en_issues.shtml?x=114379

The NDP granted unanimous consent for this Bill - TWICE! Both in Committee and at 3rd reading stage.

I guess they just must have forgotten to actually read it before it got to the Senate.

It is pretty commonplace in both Canada and the US for elected representatives to vote for a bill without actually having read it. Pretty sick, eh?

if there was any doubt about the reform/alliance agenda as pushed forward by their leader stephen, harper, bill c-10 should clear that fog up really fast.
their hidden agenda is no longer hidden and here for all of us to see.
bill c-10 is blatant censorship .
to those who argue that no taxpayers' money should be used to finance the production of art that some might deem "offensive", i say the government is subsidizing the production of many products deemed by a lot of us as "offensive", coal-fired electricity to name just one

Any fool can see that Layton is pandering here. The bill got unanimous (whipped vote) approval. Meaning the NDP, Liberal, Bloc and CPC MP's were told by their parties that they had to vote a certain way. For this to happen someone in the various party leader's offices read, reviewed, briefed and reported to the parrty caucus on the entire contents of the bill.

Layton knows that this is not Censorship, since he knows that that word has a specific legal meaning. Censorship would be the active supression of material. This bill may result in somthing not getting a tax credit, but it does not actively prevent a film from being made or exhibited.

The petition will have no effect, even if the PMO signs the damn thing the bill does not censor anything. It makes it financially more difficult to make a film with hate or smut or excessive violence in it...but you can still make that film if you really want to.

BTW, this bill was proposed by Sheila Copps back in 2002...and we know she was not a member of the CPC.

Help! Where do I find a petition against bill C-10. I want to sign it and share it with my friends. I really hate the secretive way censorship has been sneeked into a atx bill without citizen consultation. I want a part in deciding what I need to be protected from.

for those people who keep saying (all over the place, not just here) that "MY tax dollars shouldn't go to subsidizing movies, blah blah blah, respect the rights of the individual and private property, blah blah, communism, blah":
Canada doesn't have a population large enough to support a film industry of any size without some help from tax credits. If you think that art has a role to play in a healthy society, then you should be glad that the tax credit exists. This highlights a fundamental difference in ideology; the reason humans organize into governed societies is to leverage the power of the many for the collective well being of the population. The right is inherently anti-social - anti-society, in other words - in that for a conservative, organized society exists to aid the individual in his or her pursuit of material wealth, at the expense of others.
For those that keep saying "it's not censorship", you are taking a very narrow and short-sighted view of the contents of this bill. If you look at censorship throughout history, more often than not it begins with something as seemingly innocuous as bill c-10. A film can have the associated tax credit yanked AFTER it is already finished, and what bank ceo in his/her/its right mind would lend to a film based on a tax credit that may or may not be there at the end?
You say it will only affect smut; There are alrady laws in place to protect against that. Both the existing legislation regarding film tax credits, and in fact the criminal code itself protect against the things that c-10 is supposed to protect against. Not only that, but c-10 will not affect foreign funded films being made in canada - THEY will still get the tax credit. So our own tiny film industry will have yet another stumbling block when competing with Hollywood.
The only reason the so-called heritage minister would want this enacted is because the neo-conservative party wants the ability to start legislating morality to be more in line with the Canada Family Action Coalition (wow, they can "cure" homosexuality!!! fekkin idjits! Their founder, prominent Conservative Charles McVety, is due to testify in front of the Senate on apr 16 - 17; don't miss it, this man speaks like intelligent people crap.). They also realize that c-10 gives them a really good foot-hold in their long-term goal to end all arts funding and privatize the CBC.