diff --git a/services/gam/src/canvas.rs b/services/gam/src/canvas.rs
index 5ae880f11..7d48aa771 100644
--- a/services/gam/src/canvas.rs
+++ b/services/gam/src/canvas.rs
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ impl Eq for Canvas {}
 
 // we use the "screen" parameter to determine when we can turn off drawing to canvases that are off-screen
 pub fn recompute_canvases(canvases: FnvIndexMap<Gid, Canvas, U32>, screen: Rectangle) -> FnvIndexMap<Gid, Canvas, U32> {
-    let debug = true;
+    let debug = false;
     // first, sort canvases by trust_level. Canvas implements ord/eq based on the trust_level attribute
     // so jush pushing it into a max binary heap does the trick.
     if debug { info!("CANVAS: recompute canvas"); }