After noticing that a Montreal porn store was advertising online for a video editor – and that the store had specified the government of Canada was sponsoring the position and that the job was in the “adult industry” – The Globe asked the following question:
“Did the Conservative government of Canada – the same government that tried so hard a year ago to prevent money from flowing to movies they considered obscene – actually give a Montreal company a grant to train people to edit pornographic films?”
It was a question that the paper had put, without success, to two different government departments with programs that seemed to fit the criteria spelled out in the ad.
Human Resources had passed the query off to Canadian Heritage and Heritage bounced it back to Human Resources.
But the news item apparently prompted the government to take a closer look at its files.
On Wednesday, Dimitri Soudas, a spokesman for Prime Minister Stephen Harper, said: “No funding has been provided to those companies or, to the best of our knowledge, to the adult entertainment industry. Our Conservative government opposes any taxpayers dollars going to the adult entertainment industry.”
