[Advisors] article re: the non-showing of CAP documentary

[Marita Moll]

Although the headline is a bit misleading, I think this is a fairly 
balanced story about the controversy over the CAP documentary that 
was not shown at the BC summit.  Just to add a bit more detail, the 
film was never banned at the Summit.  Even as the Summit was already 
underway, there were difficulties in finding a good time slot for the 
film.  So where and when it was to be shown was still up in the air 
when the surprising e-mail, asking that it not be shown, 
landed.  This was pretty shocking for everyone who knew about it.  It 
was an issue we were just unprepared to address in mid-conference 
like that. So, the e-mail had it's intended effect. Nothing was 
cancelled -- but nothing was offered either.

Had this not happened, some of us probably would have got together, 
found a room, bought some popcorn and announced the showing -- which 
some people would have attended and enjoyed.  But it wouldn't have 
generated various requests for information from the press in Nova 
Scotia or an article like the one below.

Talk about creating a crisis...................


><http://halifax.openfile.ca/halifax/text/film-free-internet-cap-sites-stifled-province>http://halifax.openfile.ca/halifax/text/film-free-internet-cap-sites-stifled-province


Marita