Canadian MP's sign up to view porn movie

OTTAWA - Parliamentarians on the front lines of Canada's culture wars are girding themselves to watch Young People ... Fuddle-duddling.

A special screening of the provocatively titled movie, "Young People F**king," is set for Thursday night in downtown Ottawa and more than 40 MPs, Senators and their staff and guests have signed up for a viewing.

Among an early list of RSVPs obtained by The Canadian Press are four Conservative MPs. The list included three Liberal MPs and two New Democrat MPs, including Bill Blaikie, an ordained minister. Several Liberal Senators are on the list as are staff from every party on Parliament Hill.

The sexual comedy-relationship movie has become a lightning rod in the debate over proposed Conservative legislation that would give the federal government the power to deny tax credits to Canadian movie and TV productions it deems "contrary to public policy."

While Canada's multibillion-dollar TV and movie production industry has been screaming censorship, proponents responded that taxpayers simply shouldn't be funding such subject matter.