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Member of Parliament for Hochelaga / Hochelaga

Name: Daniel Paillé
e-Mail: <Paille.D@parl.gc.ca>
Party: Bloc Québécois

The New MPs are:

• New Westminster--Coquitlam: Fin Donnelly of the NDP with 49.6% of the vote and 29.9% voter turnout.
• Montmagny--L'Islet--Kamouraska--Rivière-du-Loup: Bernard Généreux of the Conservative party with 42.7% of the vote and 36.6% voter turnout.
• Hochelaga: Daniel Paillé of the Bloc Québécois with 51.2% of the vote and 22.3% voter turnout.
• Cumberland--Colchester--Musquodoboit Valley: Scott Armstrong of the Conservative party with 45.8 45.8% of the vote and 35.7% voter turnout.

By-elections have been called for November 9 in the ridings of Cumberland–Colchester–Musquodoboit Valley (Nova Scotia), Hochelaga (Quebec), Montmagny-L'Islet-Kamouraska-Rivière-du-Loup (Quebec), and

The Montreal group has a great WIKI set up at FairCopyrightMontreal.org. This is an exciting trend to see, as it will allow people in the area to better coordinate with their neighbours to talk to their neighbours and their own elected representatives.

It is now 17:00 and the debate is complete. (Hansard transcript now available) A total of 10 people spoke, including the Justice Minister (Hon. Rob Nicholson), and the Justice critics for the Liberals (Hon. Marlene Jennings), Bloc (Réal Ménard) and NDP (Joe Comartin).

Election 2006: Please add comments to discuss riding specific activities, links to candidate information, etc.

Incumbent information

Hochelaga / Hochelaga
MP: Réal Ménard (Parliamentary Internet)

Copyright 2005: Sunday afternoon, July 3rd 2005. A presentation of FACIL, Koumbit and LabCMO.

About fifteen kiosks hosted by local and not so local Free Culture enthusiasts such as Debian, FreeCulture, KDE, île sans fil, Savoir Faire Linux; a press conference announcing the Semaine québécoise de l'informatique libre, a Free Software week; a Richard Stallman presentation on copyright; and finally, the answers to all your questions with Russell McOrmond (Flora), Daniel Pascot (Laval University) and Marcus Bornfreund (Ottawa University), responsible for the canadian adaptation of the Creative Commons licenses.

Omar Bickell published an audio recording of the talk in Montreal on November 27.

The Saturday conversation in Montreal was great. Many of the participants seemed interested in working together to help to educate the public and members of parliament on copyright and related issues. We created a Montreal-specific mailing list to continue discussions.

Montreal is an important area as you have both the Heritage Minister and the Prime Minister there, members of Heritage committee, and the leader of the Bloc.

One thing that would be very helpful is if people in the area could go to the information page for their riding and post something about the local MP. This may help encourage others in the area to get involved as well.