A likely Ontario provincial election in 2013 has found Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak questioning the current degree of provincial regulations in the sale of beer and wine.
Now, he has turned his attention to the Ontario Film Review Board, which monitors every movie that is commercially screened or sold in the province in exchange for a $4.20-per-minute fee paid by distributors.
?We have to ask ourselves, what is the core role for government today in the 21st century?,? Hudak asked members of the media on Wednesday, as reported by the CBC. ?And is the core role ensuring that government appointees are sitting in a dark room reviewing movies all day long??
While the purpose of the agency might be up for debate, the OFRB emphasizes that fees have covered the cost of what they do ? with any spare change dropped into provincial coffers.
Hudak raised the fact that most Canadian provinces have continued to maintain their own separate classification systems.
Each regional board has developed a slightly different approach to the process of providing ratings and warnings, ensuring that certain films are not seen by anyone who might be easily offended.
The current classification system for Ontario now mostly mirrors the one established by the non-governmental Motion Picture Association of America, whose ?R? rating allows children to be accompanied by an adult, which means that very few mainstream movies are considered too extreme for kids.
But, as Hudak alluded, there is still plenty of porn being watched at the OFRB.
The graph below shows the number of adult movies approved for screening in Ontario in the past quarter-century. This covers the period before restrictions on the degree of sexual activity that could be shown for profit in the province were lifted in 1991, along with the transition from VHS to DVD.
Assuming that they?re now finished monitoring porn for 2012, the 2,944 titles skimmed for approval this year was down slightly from last year, although far below the peak porn year of 2003, just as online video downloading and streaming started to become commonplace.
Yet there was evidently still a sizable number of adult movies being sold in stores ? or at least gathering dust while waiting for someone to buy them.
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