CANCELLED?

THE SHAME GOES ON

What is happening is almost incredible. The antismoking cancer has now gone as far as attacking our most beautiful cultural events.

Under the pressure of the antismoking groups, now the Federal Government is considering a package of restrictions which could effectively eliminate tobacco company sponsorship of arts, entertainment and sports events. The result may well be the disappearance of many of these events.

The Alliance for Sponsorship Freedom, a national group of over 250 concerned organizations and sponsors of arts, sports, fashion and entertainment events in Canada has published a full page ad in The Globe and Mail to try to call the Government to its senses.

In times of deficit and cutbacks, many of these events will not be able to support themselves without the sponsorship of tobacco companies. Our spirit will suffer. Our culture will suffer. We will plunge even more into the cultural brutalization that is endangering us all, the same brutalization that has allowed the antismoking cancer to spread to the level of an epidemic.

If sponsorship restrictions will be implemented, tourism will also suffer, and our fragile economy with it. Moreover, this will set a fundamental precedent for even more state interference in private enterprise under the banner of public protection.
Alcohol is no doubt next in line.

Following is the list of the endangered events, according to the newspaper ad. The list speaks for itself.

We want to add just one thing. If Canadians do not take positive action against this kind of aggression, soon it will be too late, and anything that makes us a free society will be gone, lost in a clean, healthy, and sterilized society.


VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

du MAURIER INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL, VANCOUVER

BENSON & HEDGES SYMPHONY OF FIRE, VANCOUVER

MOLSON INDY, VANCOUVER

du MAURIER INTERNATIONAL, SPRUCE MEADOWS MASTERS, CALGARY

du MAURIER NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL, WINNIPEG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

du MAURIER CLASSIC LPGA GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP

du MAURIER WORLD STAGE, HARBOURFRONT CENTRE, TORONTO

du MAURIER DOWNTOWN JAZZ, TORONTO

BENSON & HEDGES SYMPHONY OF FIRE, TORONTO

du MAURIERTENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP, TORONTO

TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

MOLSON INDY, TORONTO

EXPORT "A" INC. SKINS GAME

PLAYER'S GRAND PRIX OF CANADA, MONTREAL

du MAURIERTENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP, MONTREAL

BENSON & HEDGES SYMPHONY OF FIRE, MONTREAL

FESTIVAL CRAVEN "A" JUST FOR LAUGHS, MONTREAL

MONTREAL INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL

QUEBEC INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL du MAURIER

PLAYER'S GRAND PRIX, TROIS RIVIERES

NEPTUNE THEATRE, HALIFAX

du MAURIER ATLANTIC JAZZ FESTIVAL, HALIFAX

SHIP'S COMPANY THEATRE, PARRSBORO

THEATRE NEW BRUNSWICK, FREDERICTON

AND HUNDREDS MORE EVENTS ACROSS CANADA


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