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Recently, there came a great change in the political landscape of our neighbour to the South. The Republican Party lost its hold on Congress to a very radical Democratic Party.

How did this happen? The media seems to think that it has something to do with the voters disapproval of the War on Terror, or perhaps the recent scandals among Republican officials swayed voters. However, none are mentioning the sharp drop of support from those voters who identify themselves as Evangelical Christians. And while they have noted the fall of Ted Haggard, few are linking him to the election.

And yet, even before his sordid personal life came to light (effectively ending his ministry), he had delivered the Evangelical vote into the hands of their enemy, the Left wing of American politics.

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Liberal Senators Want Changes On Bill C-10

By John Clarke

June 20th, 2008

Senators Francis Fox and Wilfred Moore wish to amend Bill C-10, which is before the senate. The bill, passed in the House Of Commons with an overwhelming majority, concerns tax policy, including a controversial section which would limit government subsidies of films containing child pornography, graohic sex, extreme violence, or offensive content "contrary to public policy."

The senators would remove the right of the heritage minister to refuse tax credits based on "public policy" or to issue guidelines about film content, give producers an efficient judicial appeal mechanism if the minister blocks or delays funding, but would continue to prevent government funding of pornography, child pornography, and hate propaganda.

The bill has raised concerns that without tax-payer funded subsidies, the Canadian film industry will no longer produce risky or edgy movies, and that the industry would suffer for it. The arts community has also raised concerns about censorship.

Earlier, Heritage Minister Josée Verner dismissed suggestions that a proposed change to a federal tax credit system jeopardizes the creative freedom of Canadian film and television production. "We are far from censorship here. We are just putting forward an intention from our government and (from) the former Liberal government just to make sure that we will take fiscal measure to make sure that the Canadian taxpayers' money won't fund extreme violence, child pornography or something like that," she said at a press conferance. "The measure contained in Bill C-10 addresses only the most extreme and gratuitous material, not mainstream films such as Eastern Promises, Borderline, and Ma Fille, Mon Ange.

“The policy rationale for the ‘contrary to public policy’ provision is simple,” Verner said, according to a transcript of the proceedings. “It ensures that the government has the ability, in exceptional circumstances, to exclude certain material from public support. There is material that is potentially illegal under the Criminal Code, such as indecent material, hate propaganda, and child pornography. Currently, no provision in the Income Tax Act or regulations exclude such material. Bill C-10 addresses this loophole, in particular.”

The tax-credit program has contributed to more than 12,000 productions with a value of almost $22 billion since it was created in 1995. The Tax Credit Guidelines have deemed pornographic films not to be an “eligible genre” of production. Once a film is given a certificate of approval for production, however, the government currently has no avenue to enforce this or any other regulation after the film is completed.

Canada’s auditor general, Sheila Fraser, cites this process as one of the least accountable expenditures of government funds and recommends changes. In her audit of 2005, Ms. Fraser stated that the government cannot even be assured that it is funding real expenses.

A recent Compas poll revealed that 81% of Canadian either oppose subsidies for the offending films (72%) or support the subsidies but believe that individual taxpayers should be able to withhold their contributions to the film subsidy program as a matter of personal conscience (9%), with women more opposed than men.

Controversy also swirls around the role of Dr. Charles McVety of the Institute For Canadian Values (a well known anti-pornograghy organization). "I never met with that guy (McVety) and there's no meeting scheduled in my agenda . . . This is not a new bill, this is an intention announced in 2002/2003, and after that our government in 2006 adopted it in October in 2007 with the support of (all) parties," said Verner.

Dr. Charles McVety is a frequent contributor to The Canadian Times. Other supporters of the bill include REAL Women of Canada, the Canadian Family Action Coalition and social conservative groups..

Senators Francis Fox and Wilfred Moore said that they would send the Bill back to the House of Commons with their amendments, but are unlikely to do so before the fall.

Heritage Minister Josée Verner in a previous Press conference

Read the article by Dr. Charles McVety on the subject of Bill C-10 (as published by the Ottawa Citizen and the Calgary Herald).

Read an article on the Compas Poll regarding tax subsidies for offensive material.

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What Happened to Christian Canada? By Mark A. Noll On September 15, 1959, Georges Vanier, Canada's Governor-General soon-to-be, began his acceptance speech with the following invocation: "Mr. Prime Minister, my first words are a prayer. May Almighty God in his infinite wisdom and mercy bless the sacred mission which has been entrusted to me by Her Majesty the Queen and help me to fulfill it in all humility. In exchange for his strength, I offer him my weakness." Fifty-six years later, on September 27, 2005, Michaklle Jean became Canada's 27th Governor-General. In her acceptance speech, by contrast, Jean referred to how Canadian history "speaks powerfully about the freedom to invent a new world," and made no reference to the deity. What happened to the Canadian religious conscience, as illustrated by the speeches of these two luminaries, in the approximately fifty years between then and now? Why might have church and synagogue attendance fallen from 67 percent after World War II to less than 20 percent in 2000? In What Happened to Christian Canada?, renowned church historian Mark Noll investigates these and other related questions, and makes timely observations about one of the more prominent sociological shifts in modern North American history. Search: Title Author/Artist ISBN CBD Stock # Keywords Publisher

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