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Originally posted by I'm Slim
For example, every porn that is at the video store in Montreal has to pass by the Quebec film board, if its accepted by them, you can then distribute it.
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Wrong! The Regie du Cinema is a Provincial review board with no juridiction on a federal law such as obscenity ( criminal code, article 159 if I remember right).
I was busted by two cops who hated me ( had testified against them in a case involving "the Devil in Miss Jones") for showing a video approved by the board for "public viewing", charged, fingerprinted. my staff threatned, etc.
Lost in first instance, won on appeal . The Crown and the Queen did not elect to go to the Supreme Court. Cost me in 1985 about 30,000 legal fees ( including 2 shrinks, the head of the sexology department of U de M, the chairwoman of Fraser University - Vancouver), etc...
The standards are not just the local community, like you all think ( This is why I had that expert witness from Vancouver - the far end for us of Canada). The standards are nationwide.
The various review boards have different standards, but they are barelly a "good father" defense argument in such a case. So don't think because you got their little sticky sticker at 0.50 or 2.00 each that you are safe... YOU ARE NOT SAFE!