The government in the Canadian province of Alberta has received massive criticism for the new regulations introduced to clean the school bookshelves from pornographic or sexual content. The head of government Danielle Smith will now clarify the wording in the regulation.
The idea is to get rid of books with pornographic images from the libraries, but leave the classics alone. I think there was a misunderstanding, so it will now be cleared up, she says to the TV channel CBC.
The new rules are set to come into force on October 1, but the guidelines were, according to the critics, so broadly formulated that books like Margaret Atwood's dystopian "Handmaid's tale" ("Tjänarinnans berättelse" in Swedish), but also for example "American psycho" by Bret Easton Ellis, "The Clan of the Cave Bear" by Jean M Auel and "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley would have been banned in the province.
