Q: What do you call a hundred censors at the bottom of the ocean?
A: [censored by the Government of Canada]
Twitch, in association with GOMORRAHY.com, is now providing downloadable PDF files of the eleven most recent issues of the "Quarterly List of Admissible and Prohibited Titles" of the Prohibited Importations Unit (PIU) of Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA). The issues collectively cover a 33-month period from July 1, 2004 to March 31st, 2007. Each one contains a list of titles reviewed by the PIU, which determined whether the material in question is "admissible" or "prohibited" - that is, whether or not the importation of the material into Canada is permitted - based on whether or not it deemed the material to be "obscenity or hate propaganda".
If you would like to receive free issues of the "Quarterly List of Admissible and Prohibited Titles" at the end of each quarter (i.e., four times a year), in PDF file format via e-mail, please contact the PIU at piu-uip@cbsa-asfc.gc.ca, by phone at (613) 954-7049, or by fax at (613) 957-4653.
For those who wonder 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 !). BTW, both of these movies currently are being sold on DVD at that cesspool of "obscenity [and] hate propaganda" known as the Twitch DVD Store.
As for those who wonder what gomorrahy is, according to documents from the files of CBSA, gomorrahy (go·mor·rah·y - cf. sod·om·y) is the insertion of a hand, a foot, or the stump of a limb (i.e., the insertion of an extremity) into an introitus/vagina or an anus/anal canal, for a sexual purpose. In other words, the following sexual acts are subsumed under the concept "gomorrahy": fisting/handballing, footing, and stumping. CBSA provided the inspiration for the domain name "gomorrahy.com" and my alias "The Gomorrahizer".
TITLES MAY OFFEND SOME READERS
"Quarterly List...": January to March 2007
"Quarterly List...": January to March 2007 (downloadable 472 KB PDF file)
"Quarterly List...": October to December 2006 (downloadable 460 KB PDF file)
"Quarterly List...": July to September 2006 (downloadable 576 KB PDF file)
"Quarterly List...": April to June 2006 (downloadable 696 KB PDF file)
"Quarterly List...": January to March 2006 (downloadable 680 KB PDF file)
"Quarterly List...": October to December 2005 (downloadable 564 KB PDF file)
"Quarterly List...": July to September 2005 (downloadable 840 KB PDF file)
"Quarterly List...": April to June 2005 (downloadable 788 KB PDF file)
"Quarterly List...": January to March 2005 (downloadable 772 KB PDF file)
"Quarterly List...": October to December 2004 (downloadable 752 KB PDF file)
"Quarterly List...": July to September 2004 (downloadable 876 KB PDF file)
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