After receiving threats and two suspicious letters Tuesday, the National Archives of Canada cancelled the screening of a controversial documentary that critiques IranÂ’s nuclear weapons program, a move that has organizers Looks like they're risk-management drones now.
The Free Thinking Film Society’s showing of Iranium prompted so many complaints — some of them from the Iranian Embassy — that staff thought it necessary to close the entire building at 396 Wellington St. in Ottawa, just steps from the Supreme Court of Canada and Parliament Hill at 4:45 p.m., said archives spokeswoman Pauline Portelance.
And run across the street and hide behind the bushes.
“Once we started to receive threats from the public and threats of public protest, we deemed the risk associated with the event was a little too high,” she said.
Just barely enough to abdicate autonomy.
At approximately 5:30 p.m., Ottawa Police swept in with its Hazmat team to investigate two letters they said could be tied to the threats of protest the National Archives staff received.
Letters that managed to work their way through the postal system but were far too hazardous to put in a tupperware container.
“There were threats of protest, so they’ve cancelled the movie and these [letters] were delivered two hours ago to the mailroom,” said Sergeant Jeff Pilon.
Or so they say. Had the letters actually existed, the only thing that would have been left would have been a smoking crater in the ground that.
By 7 p.m., the letters were cleared and considered “not suspicious at all.”
So now you're going to screen the movie because you're not pansies anymore, right?