Films we’ll never see …

Here’s a film to add to our list of Films we will never see at the Fundy Film Festival – or on CBC.

Mine Your Own Business

“Mine Your Own Business” follows George, a 23-year-old unemployed miner from northern Romania whose life has been put on hold after an anti-mining campaign orchestrated by foreign environmentalists. George explains his hopes and dreams for the future – which are different from those prescribed for him by foreign environmentalists. He then travels to other impoverished communities in Madagascar and Chile who are also desperately waiting for large mining projects. George finds people similar to himself with similar hopes and dreams of a decent job and house and a decent education and better life for their children.

Controversial? Yes, yes. But not favoured by the self-appointed anointed. [Mind you we would love to see a certain Councillor prove us wrong.]

It will however be shown at the Free Thinking Film Society of Ottawa in conjunction with a debate between Ezra Levant and Elizabeth May in Nov.

Are you reading?

We will be adding this book to our must read list. We are afraid that too many will dismiss the book because it comes from Ezra Levant but he is taking a different approach than one might expect. As Ezra says:

That’s the thing: to get support for Canadian oil, I’m not challenging the left’s values. I’m counting on their values. Because I know that Canada’s oilsands best meets the test of those values — environmentally sustainable, peaceful, economically just and respectful of minorities. I try to prove that in the book, and even try to quantify some of those measurements.

But it will challenge the “Progressive”‘s  vision of the world and evidence is often dismissed when that is threatened. Will it count that as a source the Oil sands actually is better from their environmental point of view? Will Ezra be able to convince these ideologically fixed minds with his arguments?

I make the case to liberals that if they believe global warming is an issue, then oilsands oil is superior to other sources of oil, such as California or Venezuela, which both have heavy oil that requires a lot of energy to refine. I also show that in a full life-cycle analysis — for example, taking into account things like the tankers to ship OPEC oil to the U.S. — oilsands oil is comparable in greenhouse gas emissions to most other oil in the world.

We somehow doubt it because when one’s world view is challenged it is psychologically uncomfortable and facts be damned. It is all about feelings in today’s world. Reality doesn’t count.

CBC admission

Finally the CBC has given an answer to the questions many have asked about what was to become of the reporter who, inappropriately, fed questions to a Liberal MP to ask at the Ethics Committee and which had the effect of influencing that Committee and the direction of its investigations.

Our investigation determined there was no bias in related news coverage. However, our reporter, acting on her own, used inappropriate tactics as a result of journalistic zeal, rather than partisan interest. CBC News

Press tack

There is very little in the press or other media about this issue. Absolutely amazing. You would think reporters would jump at the chance to defend freedom of the press. We did find this commentary by Paul Schneidereit in the Herald:

WATCH OUT for the thought police, better known as Canada’s human rights commissions.