We haven't stopped them, but boy did we draw attention to their slimy ways.
No one is really saying it, but it's the Christians under the Canadian Family Action Coalition that scared the crap out of everyone. Even the government.
There's hope yet, this is not America.
The slogan at the bottom of David Kahane's University of Alberta web page says it all: "Start Something."
Kahane certainly did. The associate professor of political science--specializing in democratic theory and practice--got an email Thursday from a friend, playwright Brad Fraser, outraged at something he'd read in the Globe and Mail. Attached was the story, "Tories plan to withhold funds from offensive productions."
Inspired by a Facebook group looking at new copyright legislation, Kahane--contacted by TV Feeds My Family through Facebook--decided to see if he could "help to make a difference around C-10 using such a group."
The result: within 24 hours, 5000 people had joined "Keep your censoring hands off of Canadian film and TV! No to Bill C-10!"
Read more here.
Also from the same blog, tvfeedsmyfamily.blogspot:
Separation of Church and State.
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