Film producers in Toronto are beginning to hear the same sort of complaints that their counterparts in Hollywood have long had to contend with.?According to today's (Wednesday) Toronto Star, merchants in the St.?Lawrence Market area, which reportedly has been the site of 87 different shoots during the past nine months, are claiming that film and TV productions have tied up parking and traffic, resulting in significant loss.?One shop owner told the newspaper, "My October sales were down 15 per cent, between $5,000 and $7,000, on last year due to film makers' trucks taking up meter parking along the main streets and blocking off our stores from customers, like a Berlin wall of tractor-trailers." Another commented: "I've received compensation only once, and even then I had to produce bank records to prove lost sales.?...?We're not in business to underwrite the film industry.?Enough is enough."
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