February 15, 1996 For Immediate Release
LIBERALS JUST DON'T GET IT - NO MORE TAXES AND NO MORE SMUT ON CBC!
"Tax dollars should not be used to produce sexually explicit movies, videos, books or art."
Yorkton - Garry Breitkreuz, MP for Yorkton-Melville, was shocked to hear from his constituents about the sexually explicit movie shown on CBC in prime time on Sunday night. The phones started ringing first thing Monday morning with taxpayers complaining about the "filthy movie" called "The Lives of Girls and Women". One woman said she turned the movie off when she saw a man "obviously masturbating". She said she wished it were just as easy to "turn off" the tax dollars that go to support the production of this type of trash on the CBC.
Breitkreuz who made headlines in November 1994 for criticising the National Film Board for spending over $6 million to produce and distribute their Gay and Lesbian Video Collection was appalled when he heard the complaints. "The bureaucrats in the CBC are their own worst enemy," said Breitkreuz. "How can Sheila Copps have the gall to ask us to pay more taxes to support the production of this kind of junk? They already get a billion dollars a year from the poor taxpayers and they waste it putting out programs like this at a time when our kids are still up watching TV."
One of Breitkreuz' constituents said it best in a letter she wrote to Sheila Copps, Heritage Minister: "It would be nice if you would get your priorities straight. We've been led to believe that Canadian drama is great. I was absolutely disgusted with [the] Sunday Night Movie, 'Lives of Girls and Women'. If that filth is your idea of culture you are way out. Some of the CBC's Radio plays are just as bad. The language is obscene. The movie was a waste of 2 hours of anyone's time and I certainly won't be watching again."
Breitkreuz commented, "Spending one billion taxpayers' dollars a year without being accountable to the taxpayers is the main reason why a recent Insight Canada poll discovered that 61% of Canadians want the CBC privatized. The people who want their kids to see sexually explicit movies should pay for them themselves. I still maintain that taxpayers' money should not be used to produce sexually explicit, obscene or pornographic movies, videos, books or art and I will do everything I can to get a law, prohibiting this type of expenditure, approved by Parliament. I agree with my constituents here in Yorkton-Melville that this kind of trash should be kept off the air-waves and I don't want my money going towards it either."
He concluded by quoting again from his constituent's letter: "We Western law-abiding citizens have not been listened to regarding gun control legislation and it's time we had some of your attention. No more taxes, no more filthy movies."
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