[Discuss] Stifling debate on the new copyright law

[Joan McIlmoyl Cleghorn]

Unfortunately, clicking on 'British Columbia' for one's MP brings up a 404
error......8-(

8-)
Joan

On Dec 5, 2007 12:00 PM, <discuss-request at vlug.org> wrote:

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> Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:33:30 -0800
> From: George Farris <farrisg at shaw.ca>
> Subject: Re: [Discuss] Stiffling debate on the new copyright law
> To: discuss at vlug.org
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> On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 00:13 -0800, Corey Burger wrote:
> > As has been discussed on this before, Canada looks set to pass a new
> > copyright law similar to the US DMCA. However, as has been pointed
> > out, absolutely no concrete information is available to the public.
> > Given the Industry Ministers recent refusal to go on a CBC program,
> > Search Engine, to take listeners commenters, I can only conclude that
> > the Conservative gov't has concluded that a large public debate would
> > generate so much negative publicity to kill the bill. This is very
> > dangerous. Michael Geist has a great blog post [1], about who to
> > contact about the upcoming law and to express what you feel should be
> > in it.
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> > [1] http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2431/125/
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> You can use this to create a point and click letter to email, I am also
> printing a hard copy and snail mailing it off to my MP.
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> http://www.onlinerights.ca/get_active/copyright_reform_action/
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Joan McIlmoyl Cleghorn, U.E.
in Beautiful Saseenos near Sooke & Victoria British Columbia
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