All men “buying local video” Sparks controversy, apologize

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A promotional video produced by Cornwal, Oanton, which only includes male companies and male political leaders, the name “blatant omission” by members of society, who called on the city to make a more diverse acting video for the region.

Chantal Tranchamontagne, a resident of Cornwall, businessman and owner of Perch, a local magazine, tell CBC Radio’s’ Good morning She did not think that people behind the video were aiming to delete women, “but it is important to represent this society for what it is.”

She said: “We are lucky to live in a diverse place and cooperation, and by deleting a large part of who is part of that story, it makes a difference.”

The mayor of Cornwall Justin Townel on US President Radio on CBC Radio on CBC radio, said the video, which includes Cornewal, Akoisseni and the United Provincials in Stormont, Dundas and Gengearia. Good morning.

He said that the male actors were wrong, and before responsibility.

“Sometimes you focus on what the message tries to be, and you may not care about everything that happens around it,” he explained.

Diversity and division

Sranchemontagne said the video soon became the subject of local conversation.

“Acting is important. We live in such a diverse society … It is just a blatant omission,” she said.

She said that the rhetoric in the community has become “hot”, but there are also some respected conversations that occurred.

Amanda Goshir, the owner of the flowers of flowers in Cornwal, said she hadn’t had a video problem when she saw it for the first time.

I just thought about herself: “Oh, Yay, Cornwall on the map!”

And when the negativity [comments] I got out of that, you were like, “Oh, why? It is still good.”

Gaucher agreed that more diversity will be better.

“We may do a group of females and do something of our own, and the next time it has been mixed. At the end of the day, as long as Cornwall is depicted as a good small city, I think we are, all this is positive.”

What next?

Towndale agreed that the video “did not say about the true reflection of our society today.”

in Statement on FacebookTowndale also wrote that some female business owners asked not to be shown and that the video producer is a woman.

“She had the best intentions and did not mean excluding anyone.”

The current version of the video will remain, according to Towndale.

“We cannot rewrite the date.”

But he said that the city has plans for more promotional videos such as the first videos and “everything we offer to go forward will be more comprehensive for our community.”