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Canada’s film and TV tax credits targeted by cash-strapped provincesHalifax-based camera operator Andrew Stretch, right in blue jacket, and other crew on the set of Haven, a supernatural drama filmed in Nova Scotia. (HO-Michael Tompkins)
HALIFAX – Camera operator Andrew Stretch remembers the day in 2013 when a campaigning politician looked into his camera lens and promised to help create jobs that would allow more young people to stay and work in Nova Scotia.
The politician was Stephen McNeil, now the province’s premier.
Stretch says McNeil broke his word last week when he tabled a budget measure that effectively kills a tax credit that most other provinces are still offering the film and TV industry.
“I used the skills I learned working in the film industry to help you spread your word,” Stretch says in an open letter released Friday, a day after the province cut by 75 per cent a refundable tax credit that production companies have used for 20 years to finance their work.
“I continue to work as a professional in the film industry and as you’re aware, your government is on the verge of threatening my livelihood as well as that of thousands of close friends — hard-working, taxpaying and, for the most part, young Nova Scotians…

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Canada’s film and TV tax credits targeted by cash-strapped provincesHalifax-based camera operator Andrew Stretch, right in blue jacket, and other crew on the set of Haven, a supernatural drama filmed in Nova Scotia. (HO-Michael Tompkins)
HALIFAX – Camera operator Andrew Stretch remembers the day in 2013 when a campaigning politician looked into his camera lens and promised to help create jobs that would allow more young people to stay and work in Nova Scotia.
The politician was Stephen McNeil, now the province’s premier.
Stretch says McNeil broke his word last week when he tabled a budget measure that effectively kills a tax credit that most other provinces are still offering the film and TV industry.
“I used the skills I learned working in the film industry to help you spread your word,” Stretch says in an open letter released Friday, a day after the province cut by 75 per cent a refundable tax credit that production companies have used for 20 years to finance their work.
“I continue to work as a professional in the film industry and as you’re aware, your government is on the verge of threatening my livelihood as well as that of thousands of close friends — hard-working, taxpaying and, for the most part, young Nova Scotians…

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