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Manitoba To Rate Video Games
Cowards Anonymous writes "The government of Manitoba has introduced legislation requiring video games to have ratings system similar to that of movies, according to this story in The Winnipeg Sun. There is no word on how much this will cost, or what criteria the Manitoba Film Classification Board will use to determine whether a game should be available to those under 18 or not."
Make the gaming companies provide a -proper- rating.
There's a lot of games that aren't rated quite as they should be (I beleive that was the subject of a previous story)
But either way, the Manitoba film board goes and re-rates movies to thier own standards.
I'm a Manitoban. Yes they absolutely want to waste taxpayer's money. Our current provincial government is what you would call extremely populist. They've been doing all kinds of whacky things like "reforming" labour laws. You'd really have to live here to understand just how nuts these guys are. Check out the fantastic back-patting on their web page.
They even have the intestinal fortitude to put on there "Balanced Budgets and Lower Taxes". The reality of the situation is that the Conservative party that they took over from, balanced the budget for many years in a row after cleaning up the mess left over from these yahoo's. Then passed legislation saying that if the government did run a deficit there would be all kinds of salary implications for the mucky mucks.
They just released their latest budget, raising many taxes. The NDP had now run a defecit 3 years in a row. You'd be VERY hard pressed to find anyone outside of NDP caucus who can call this a surplus budget. In fact there are many examples of news stories condemning their accounting.
Manitoba auditor: Budget contains deficit
Manitoba set to bring down 'realistic' provincial budget
Manitoba increases taxes
I could go on, but I think I'm about to explode with rage.