UPDATE -
Heritage Minister orders Library and Archives Canada to show controversial film
National Archives cancels screening of documentary on Iran after threats
Heritage Minister orders Library and Archives Canada to show controversial film
National Archives cancels screening of documentary on Iran after threats
Sarah Boesveld, National Post · Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011
After receiving threats and two suspicious letters Tuesday, the National Archives of Canada cancelled the screening of a controversial documentary that critiques Iran’s nuclear weapons program, a move that has organizers questioning the national library’s autonomy.Read more
The Free Thinking Film Society’s showing of Iranium prompted so many complaints — some of them from the Iranian Embassy — that staff thought it necessary to close the entire building at 396 Wellington St. in Ottawa, just steps from the Supreme Court of Canada and Parliament Hill at 4:45 p.m., said archives spokeswoman Pauline Portelance.
“Once we started to receive threats from the public and threats of public protest, we deemed the risk associated with the event was a little too high,” she said,,,,,,
With our ever increasingly shrinking and spineless neighbor to our North we in the U.S. had better pay close attention to that particular border as well as the one shared with Mexico.
It looks as though we have accepted the fact that Mexico is basically one huge murderous drug cartel to our South but what will it be like to our North when Canada becomes an islamist state?