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Member of Parliament for Thunder Bay-Rainy River / Thunder Bay - Rainy River

Name: John Rafferty
e-Mail: <Rafferty.J@parl.gc.ca>
Party: New Democratic Party

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.

Hi Mr. McOrmond,

To be perfectly honest, I am really busy with being a teacher and attending debates. When I read your email, there are a lot of issues there and being not as technology savvy as others, I will just defer to our Green Party's response.

Thank you for your inquiry,

Russ Aegard

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

Incumbent information

Thunder Bay–Rainy River / Thunder Bay–Rainy River
MP: Ken Boshcoff (Parliamentary Internet)

Received from John Rafferty campaign:

;:Please note that the NDP central campaign office is providing a reply on our behalf.

;:Thank you,

;:David Loan
;:Campaign Manager
;:Thunder Bay-Rainy River

;:Hi there,

;:I don't know if the Green Party has official policy on the issues you have listed, so I will be answering them based on my own personal opinion.....I am going to give you a set of responses now and the questions that I couldn't answer, I'm going to research a little bit before I respond again....

;:My responses are below....

;:Russ Aegard