ACTRA says tax credit change is censorship

TORONTO - ACTRA has blasted the Conservative government over amendments to the omnibus bill C-10 which it says would allow the Canadian Heritage Minister to deny tax credits to film and television products it doesn’t like. ACTRA National Executive Director Stephen Waddell suggested the Conservative government wants to set itself up “as the country’s morality police” through the proposed measures that would allow it to pull financial aid for any film or television show it believes is not in the public interest. The bill is now before the Senate. “The government is overstepping its bounds and interfering in an arms-length...