Coming Canadian Copyright Bill

[Patrick]

No I live in Ontario

BTW I am with you all the way, "run around" or not-Patrick

Russell McOrmond wrote:
> Patrick wrote:
>   
>> I've had a bit of a "run around" with this.
>>     
>
>    Do you live in Calgary?
>
>    This is an issue that can't be left to the Ministers or to issue 
> critics from the 3 opposition parties.  The issue must be brought to the 
> attention of all 308 MPs.  The focus over the holidays should really be:
>
>    a) Talking to your own MP, possibly starting with letter writing 
> http://www.digital-copyright.ca/letters
>
>    b) Talking to all friends/family/etc so that they are aware of the 
> issue, and are immunized against the misinformation from the various 
> lobbiests (IE: that this is about modernizing out "antiquated" copyright 
> act -- which is only 1 year older than the so-called Modern US law, that 
> this is about protecting creative Canadians from "theft"  when in fact 
> it is about protecting outdated business models from competition, etc)
>
>    c) Signing the two petitions, and using them as tools to educate 
> people about the real issues
>        http://www.digital-copyright.ca/petition/ict/
>
>
>    d) Writing letters to the editor to local media.  While the national 
> papers have people to cover things, the local people need the 
> distributed support that our online community can offer.  Our opponents 
> (CRIA, etc) have been using this and focusing on local papers with their 
> misinformation, we we need to correct this.
>
>
>
> BTW: If you have questions about the current state of Canadian Copyright 
> law, as well as good and bad ideas that have been proposed for changes, 
> please just ask.  Ideal would be the digital-copyright.ca mailing lists 
> given there are more people there that can help, but asking here (or in 
> email to me) works as well.
>
>