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.”