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Creative committee to appear before Senate committee on Bill C-10

OTTAWA – The creative community will be expressing their concerns about Bill C-10 to the Senate Standing Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce on April 10. Controversial Bill C-10 that includes provisions allowing the Canadian Heritage minister to deny tax credits to film and TV productions if they are deemed “contrary to public policy” amounts to censorship, claim most in the creative community. Due to appear before the Senate standing committee are the Association des producteurs de films et de television du Quebec, the Canadian Film and Television Production Association, FilmOntario, the Writers Guild of Canada, the Alliance of Canadian...