Don’t like whats on, change the channel

Canada’s getting into porn! Even better, the company launching a new Canadian porn-network is based out of Sherwood Park, just on the outskirts of Edmonton here. Not suprisingly though, some people aren’t getting off on this news.

The Canada Family Action Coalition wants the Conservatives to quash last week’s decision by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to grant a licence to adult film network Northern Peaks.

Since this is Canada, it’s not a simple “the Christians don’t want smut on TV” argument,

McVety [president of the Canadian Family Action Coalition] says by setting such a high Canadian content requirement, the CRTC is effectively stimulating the growth of the domestic porn industry. “If private companies want to engage in such activity, it’s not criminal in this nation, and they’re free to do so. But for the government to use to public resource to promote such degradation shows how detached the bureaucracy is from the Canadian people.”

Yes, the CRTC requires 50% Canadian content, but that doesn’t mean any public money is going into the network.  We require more content because our weak national identity would supposedly be swallowed whole if we were exposed to pure American programming (or maybe the government’s just saving us from how bad American news really is).

McVety continues with weaker arguments:

He also says both CRTC and the cable companies give preferential treatment to lucrative porn broadcasters but shorts religious programming. He is concerned that the CRTC will allow cable companies to offer the station on a free trial for a number of months.

So the fact CTS has been on the air for 13 years and many stations also offer 100 Huntley St and Sunday services means the CRTC is biased AGAINST Christians?

At the end of the day if you don’t want to watch porn then change the channel and don’t subscribe to it.  If you really don’t want to have it as an option in your house than call Shaw or whoever hooks up your TV and ask not to get it.  Then the rest of us can go home, eat babies and watch good-ol Canadian porn (that’s Igloo-style).