Digital Copyright Canada

Copyright policy is the joint responsibility of the Minister of Canadian Heritage and the Minister of Industry. Two committees of the House of Commons are therefore the key members who are most likely to be studying this topic and related bills.

Members of the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology (40th Parliament, 2nd Session. January 26, 2009 - ).

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Member of Parliament for Leeds-Grenville / Leeds - Grenville

Name: Mr. Gord Brown
e-Mail: <Brown.G@parl.gc.ca>
Party: Conservative Party of Canada
Gender: Male

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Michael Geist reports on some lobbying being done to water down an anti-SPAM bill.

At yesterday's hearing, it was discouraging to see lobbyists for Canadian Chamber of Commerce and Canadian Intellectual Property Council huddling with Liberal MPs before the start of the hearing. It was even more incredible to see lobbyists for the Canadian Real Estate Association draft a series of questions about the bill, hand them to a Bloc MP, and have them posed to the witnesses moments later.
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Consider writing to your MP or the members of the Industry Committee today asking them to support C-27 with an opt-in approach.

I recommend writing to your MP, asking them to forward the letter to committee members. This may increase the impact.

Update: The Copyright Lobby's Secret Pressure On the Anti-Spam Bill, which is referenced via BoingBoing.

On May 13'th I sent the following letter to Liberal MP Dan McTeague, Conservative MP Gord Brown, Bloc MP Serge Ménard, NDP MP Charlie Angus, my own MP David McGuinty and to the Hill Times. I expected that I would post the letter when I received a reply, but even though the MPs were in their ridings this last week I received absolutely no reply.

I find it disturbing that there is very little about this special interest caucus being disclosed to the public. Unlike a committee where the membership and minutes are disclosed, this group of MPs have been meeting with lobbiests to get a narrow idea of the issues without any possibility of the Canadian public holding them accountable.

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Incumbent information

Leeds–Grenville / Leeds–Grenville
MP: Gord Brown (Parliamentary Internet)

Received from Chris Bradshaw:

;:Ms. Lawson,

;:It would be helpful for Canadians to debate the issues your question touch on, as they are new to most people.

;:I have been a student of information theory for over 30 years, including being on the executive of ACCESS, the Canadian Committee for Freedom of Information and Personal Privacy that helped bring in federal legislation in the early 1980s, working with Jed Baldwin (I was most active on personal privacy, having authoried a pamphlet for the Civil Liberties Association - National Capital Region in 1978, "Privacy and You." I was also the Consumer's Assoc. rep on the CSA standards committee on Telidon-like technologies, in the 1980s (succeeded by Andrew Clement).