The Underground Economy: Not Your Problem? video contest

We challenged Canadians to create videos that would tell us in their own words, using their own creativity, why the underground economy is bad for all of us. They rose to the challenge! We received dozens of incredibly creative, thought-provoking, and entertaining videos. You can watch them all on our YouTube channel.

Choosing a winning video in each category (French and English) proved to be a difficult task-so many of the videos communicate excellent messages about the negative social impacts and personal consequences of participating in the underground economy. A sincere thank you to everyone who participated.

Congratulations to the winners of the Canada Revenue Agency 2009 Independent Video Producer Award.

English category

• Title: You, Me, a Butterfly and the CRA | Transcript
  Producers: David Hall, Steven Shanahan, Oker Chen,
  and Trevor Kai
  City: Toronto, ON and Vancouver, BC

French category

• Title: L'économie clandestine | Transcript
  Producers: Simon Lavictoire
  City: St-Georges, QC

2009 Finalist Videos

• Title: Tax Rap (YouTube Web site)
  Producers: Davin Lengyel and Geoff Lapaire
  City: Toronto, ON
  
  
• Title: Superhero Support Group (YouTube Web site)
  Producers: Davin Lengyel and Geoff Lapaire
  City: Toronto, ON

Visit us on YouTube to view all the videos!

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