Can I ask a question? I mean I know he has an abnormally big mouth, but where the hell are OUR documentary filmmakers with their fervour against the CBC lockout? Picketing maybe? I vote to make Moore an honorary Canadian. At least for the sake of us having SOMEONE in this country's media speaking out about the lockout or at least trying to figure out the details of the conflict, which have been vague at best. (Maybe those reporters are picketing too).
Also, he could TOTALLY pass for a lumberjack.
TORONTO (CP) - Famed American documentarian Michael Moore demandedFriday that the CBC drop plans to air this weekend his Academy Award-winning film, Bowling for Columbine, because of the month-longlockout at the public broadcaster."I do not want my film being broadcast on the network unless it iswilling to let its own workers back in to work and promises tobargain with them in good faith," Moore said in a statement Friday."CBC has locked out its union workers, an action that is abhorrent toall who believe in the rights of people to collectively bargain. Whythe great and honourable CBC is behaving like an American corporationis beyond me."Bowling for Columbine, an examination of America's obsession withguns and violence, is scheduled to air Sunday night on CBC and aspokesman for the broadcaster said the documentary will be showndespite Moore's objections."We've promoted the film heavily and our audiences are expecting itto be on," said Jason MacDonald. "We will broadcast it."Moore won an Oscar for best documentary for the film in 2003.He used his acceptance speech at the Oscar ceremony as an opportunityto launch a broadside against President George W. Bush and hisparticipation in the war in Iraq, which had been launched only a fewdays earlier.
