Ever hip to what today’s immigrants are into, Citizenship & Immigration Canada wants to hear from new Canadians. Despite the fact that in rural villages and big cities around the world, locals are using modern technology like cell phones and blackberrys to send rape videos to their friends, and YouTube to disseminate beheading videos, Canada’s bureaucrats want them to find a VHS recorder (why not Beta?) to tell them all about how to end racism.

1. be between 45 to 60 seconds in length;
2. be submitted on one Mini-DV tape, DVD or VHS tape per entry;
3. be accompanied by one entry form, which also includes a parent or guardian signature PER PARTICIPANT;
4. not contain any images not created by the entrants (such as pictures, photographs, stock film or images from the internet) without a letter of permission from the person having rights in the images to use them for insertion in the video for the purposes of the Competition and granting to the Department of Citizenship and Immigration and its agents the right to use all videotape images they receive as they see fit and allow any television station participating in this initiative to edit, reproduce and broadcast any and all video submissions or portions thereof. Remember to include, unless he/she stated otherwise, the name of the author of the images in the credits of the video; and
5. use only original music in your video (i.e. music you and your team composed), or use royalty-free and rights-free music.

Canada is very concerned about the right of those singers and bands to which it gives enormous and unnecessary monetary grants. As for the rights of the budding videographers… well, not so much.

All videotape entries become the property of the Department of Citizenship and Immigration, including all intellectual property rights, and will not be returned. It should be understood that this involves that the Department of Citizenship and Immigration will have the right to use all videotape images they receive as they see fit and allow any television station participating in this initiative to edit, reproduce and broadcast any and all video submissions or portions thereof.

Better hurry! If you get your entry in by January 19, 2009, racism will end. Actually, that’s kinda true. The next day is Obama’s inauguration, and I swear I will rip the head off of anyone who plays the race card for the next 4-8 years after that.

H/t Kathy.

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