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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Yes, there are, but when the government is imposing a limitation on 2(b) expression it must pass s.1 muster. There are policy grounds for those exceptions that have to be justified within the framework the SCC set out twenty years ago. That is how this works, legally. Your argument - "there is no law preventing this film from being made in Canada" - would be laughed out of Court.
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Oh, would it? Well let me know when someone takes this to court, then. Make sure I'm there, so I can bask in the laughter of my intellectual superiors.
For now, though, you'll have explain why Parks Canada needs to grant permission to film to every film that applies, even if an element of production is clearly at odds with the mission statement of Parks Canada. Pretty sure that's why permission needs to be asked in the first place. Maybe I'm wrong, and if I am, so be it.
But framing this as a freedom of speech issue? I don't think it's accurate, and I wonder if people would care if not for the perceived aboriginal justice issue to it. my guess? No. People make a stink when it's "PC RUN AMOK!" but I don't see a lot of freedom of speech arguments in the thread about the couple who killed their kid because of voodoo science.