Digital Copyright Canada

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

Member of Parliament for Kitchener-Conestoga / Kitchener - Conestoga

Name: Mr. Harold Glenn Albrecht
e-Mail: <Albrecht.H@parl.gc.ca>
Party: Conservative Party of Canada
Gender: Male

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

On October 1'st I was invited by the Waterloo Public Interest Research Group (WPIRG) and the Waterloo Students for the Information Commons (WSIC) to the University of Waterloo to give a talk on Copyright and Bill C-61. The outline for this message is the same as for the talk: some copyright history, what has recently changed, what would be a good policy response, and what has the actual response been. I'll then end talking about the current federal general election.

The slides and recording of the talk are available online.

Read the rest of this entry on IT World Canada's blog »

P2pnet editor Jon Newton has decided to come out in support of a specific party, namely the NDP, as the party people should support if the issues we cover on p2pnet are important to you. While I agree with some of the specific candidates he mentions, such as Timmins–James Bay candidate and NDP digital spokesperson Charlie Angus, and Vancouver Centre candidate Michael Byers, I believe it’s the candidates we need to concentrate on, and not the parties.

Read full article on p2pnet.

Waterloo Public Interest Research Group (WPIRG) and the Waterloo Students for the Information Commons (WSIC) are hosting me for a talk on Bill C-61 and Copyright Law in Canada this Wednesday, October 1. See details via communityevents.ca, Facebook, YaHoo.

The slides and recording of the talk are available online.

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

Kitchener–Conestoga / Kitchener–Conestoga
MP: Lynn Myers (Parliamentary Internet)

Received June 15:
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;:I am afraid that I do not have enough time or knowledge to give this questionnaire the response it deserves.

;:Thank you for your interest.
;:Kris Stapleton

The following was received June 17:

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;:I have familiarized myself with the Green Party policy on open source software. The passage below is for posting.
;:Thank you,
;:Kris Stapleton

;:Green Party Policy - Open Source Software

;:In this era of increasing technology dependence, both in business and in daily life, software has become a vital economic resource. Software applications must be trustworthy, reliable and easy to use. The Open Source Movement is emerging as a competitive rival to privately developed and marketed software, producing programs of equal or better reliability and security.