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Taken from the 3rd Spike TV Video Game Awards 2005. Do you notice anything about the background?

Junior Foreign Minister Dan McTeague is suggesting to the Canadian government that they should ban US rap artist 50 Cent from touring around Canada because of his criminal record. Canadian law dictates that anyone with a criminal record needs a special permit from the office of Immigration Minister Joe Volpe to enter the country. McTeague has written to Volpe urging him not to grant the permit. Volpe declined to discuss the case with reporters but said he too was concerned by the rising gun violence in Toronto, where 49 people have been killed so far this year, many of them young black men.

Ok, ok...hold on here. Before people start raising their arms in disgust or blame Canada for other things (like their Arctic breeze), let's step back a bit and pretend to be in their shoes.
Several minutes later...
Ok. I can't be in their shoes. All I can think of is, if 50 Cent changed his tone from glorifying gangs, guns, bitches and ho's, maybe more places (like Canada) would relax their laws a bit. But, since 50 Cent has been on the record to support violent video games and the like, there will be more resistance from the "higher powers that be" simply because they don't want another gang-related shooting before, during, after his show.
Thoughts? Anybody? Canadians?