Stephen Harper should cut his hair, not film board funding
By Rob Maguire, March 3, 2008 Comments (2)
In part two of this week's attack on culture in Canada, Stephen Harper's Conservatives have cut $2.5 million from the budget of the National Film Board. It now appears that Canadian producers will have even less money to create and promote films that fulfill the government's new puritanical requirements.
Not cut from the budget, however, is Harper's fashion advisor. Given that Harper's hair is even worse than the coiffe of the creep in No Country For Old Men, taxpayers not getting very good value for their money.
(Disclosure: I work part-time at the NFB.)
More on Bill C-10:
Like the porn industry needs Tax Credits
Bill will yank funding from "offensive" film
Jack Layton weighs in on Bill C-10
An open letter to Prime Minister Harper
It is only right and fair that the budget be reduced. C-10 effectively disqualifies some films from being made. These films are not chosen randomly, but rather with a specific political bias. If the budget was not also reduced accordingly, that money would instead go to other films. And that would be political interference with culture and public thought, which would be wrong.
Sigh, I thought it was funny at first, but now I've mad myself sad.
Hey, leave me alone! I had nothing do to with this.
Sincerely,
Stephen Harper's Hair
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