Digital Copyright Canada

Elections Canada Electoral district profile (Links to Map, Past Candidates, and Past Election Results)

Member of Parliament for Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing / Algoma - Manitoulin - Kapuskasing

Name: Mr. Brent St. Denis
e-Mail: <St.Denis.B@parl.gc.ca>
Party: Liberal Party of Canada
Gender: Male

Note: Database not yet current... working on it

Michael Geist reports that, "coming out of last night's election, 34 candidates who supported the copyright pledge during the campaign were elected - 11 Liberals and 23 New Democrats".

The list of candidates supporting the Copyright Pledge has been updated on Monday the 6'th.

If your candidates aren't on this list, then ask them if they would take the pledge.

Addition: Hijal De Sarkar (NDP, Ottawa South)

A Hill Times article by Simon Doyle, Abbas Rana and Bea Vongdouanchanh documents the 40 Conservative targeted ridings. The in-paper version included a table of the ridings, and I've linked this article with the 40 ridings so people will know if they are one of them.

Please try to talk to all Candidates about copyright, but especially talk to the Conservatives in these ridings. It would be great if during this election that the Conservatives could find their "Charlie Angus" -- someone who can switch the party from being anti-technology/modernization to being an advocate.

Hill Times journalists Abbas Rana, Simon Doyle and Harris MacLeod have assembled a list of 57 ridings in British Columbia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec, where the parties won or lost by a margin of about five per cent or less in the last federal election. This is a superset of what Michael Geist called the Copyright MPs which won their riding by 10 percent or less in the last election and their riding is home to a university.

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

Incumbent information

Algoma–Manitoulin–Kapuskasing / Algoma–Manitoulin–Kapuskasing
MP: Brent St. Denis (Parliamentary Internet)

Received from Lindsay Killen

;:Hi, this is pretty well a one person constituancy office... my computer and I so I'll do my best...and as I learn more about the issues, my perspective will deepen. The Green Party also has relevant principles regarding these issues.

Music File-sharing: What is your position on the issue of file-sharing in Canada--should it be illegal?

;:Taking something like intellectual property without asking is wrong. If you've paid a levy on a blank CD, permission has been granted by those who benefit from the levy.

Technological Protection of Copyrighted Materials: What is your position on using legislation to prohibit circumvention of TPMs?