Conservatives Want to Be Your Mom

According to a Globe and Mail article the Conservatives want to be able to withhold tax credits from programs that the Heritage Minister or the Justice Minister deem innapropriate.

The proposed changes to the Income Tax Act would allow the Heritage Minister to deny tax credits to projects deemed offensive, effectively killing the productions. Representatives from Heritage and the Department of Justice will determine which shows or films pass the test.

It seems, to say the least, ironic that the party that complains constantly about a bias against them in the media would want Ottawa politicians deciding which shows got made and which didn't. Wouldn't, according to their view, this make media bias much worse once another party came into government. At any rate I think it is completely inappropriate that any government should decide what is 'appropriate' programming. This government, whose trademarks are secrecy and sensorship seems especially ill equipped to make such decisions.