We all know politicians have this rare inability to actually ‘fess up to bloops and blunders (as well as a built-in inability to speak the words “I am sorry”), but this, I think, tops anything I’ve ever heard. It’s from CBC.
At one point on Thursday, Conservative Senator David Angus, who is the committee’s chair, adjourned the session, but — before his microphone was turned off — made remarks that are raising some questions.
“The minister agrees. She told me she hates the law,” Angus, whose voice was still being carried on an internet audio stream of the hearing, was heard telling someone close by.
“What we want is a sort of moratorium…”
Just a few seconds of Angus’s remarks were recorded before the microphone was turned off.
Questioned afterward, the senator denied the comments.
“I did not quote the minister because I did not even talk to the minister,” he told CBC News.
“I haven’t heard myself say [the comment] and I’m certainly not acknowledging that I said it.”
That first part of that last quote had me rolling on the floor.
Tags: politics
me again, so turns out I was wrong about the Conservatives shooting themselves in the foot with this bill since they have ensured that Bill C-10 will not affect American production companies that wish to shoot their movies here.
So let’s see if I got this…
Canadian movies + “offensive” material = no tax credit
American movies (made in Canada) + “offensive” material= $$$
yep sounds like our government !
I’ve been doing some reading about this proposed law and the thing that’s ironic is, I would imagine the Conservative government wouldn’t want to do anything that would prevent the Canadian economy from growing and making money.
At the end of the day it’s not just the small beloved indie Canadian movies that will only suffer, something like this will prevent any production company small or large from wanting to invest money in a market that may or may not give them a tax-break at the end of the production.
Charlie Smith had an interesting commentary on the Georgia Straight’s website which lays out very nicely all the ways in which our PM is toadying to the religious rights of this country, Bill-C-10 is just another example of our governments attempt to shift the pendulum to suite their “morals” and it’s only a slippery slope from there.