GagWatch

Movie website, Twitch, have started providing downloadable PDF files of the seven most recent issues of the “Quarterly List of Admissible and Prohibited Titles” of the Prohibited Importations Unit (PIU) of Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA). Each of the issues contains a list of titles - including books, magazines, comics, CDs and DVDs - which have been reviewed by the PIU who determine whether the material is “admissible” or “prohibited”, based on whether or not it deemed the material to be “obscenity or hate propaganda”.

For those who may be wondering what an article on material deemed by the PIU to be “obscenity or hate propaganda” has to do with the kind of movies normally discussed here on Twitch, it should be noted that on Friday September 10, 2004, CBSA arrested a man for importing into Canada a copy of Bo Arne Vibenius’ Thriller - A Cruel Picture (Thriller - en grym film), and on Monday July 28, 2003, CBSA - then Canada Customs and Revenue Agency (CCRA) - arrested me for importing into Canada a copy of Catherine Breillat’s Cannes-prizewinning Fat Girl (À ma sœur !).

You can find the lists here.

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