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Member of Parliament for Trinity-Spadina / Trinity - Spadina

Name: Ms Olivia Chow
e-Mail: <Chow.O@parl.gc.ca>
Party: New Democratic Party
Gender: Female

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".

Michael Geist has identified a group of 27 MPs (nine percent of all MPs) who share two key attributes - they won their riding by 10 percent or less in the last election and their riding is home to a university. The combination is important since it is these MPs - not the very safe Jim Prentice - who will face the consequences of the Prentice bill that will harm a generation well versed in digital technologies, social networks, and the Internet.

With Scam Bulte claiming that her opponents are foreign, such as Cory Doctorow of BoingBoing who has been instrumental in exposing her during this election, we should ask: where does science fiction author Cory Doctorow vote?

His bio states that he "was born in Toronto, Canada, on July 17, 1971. I lived there until I was 29, with the exception of brief stints in Baja California, Mexico and northern Costa Rica.".

Where in Toronto? He was blogging about Bulte just prior to the June 28, 2004 election, where he also noted that "I've cast my absentee ballot, for Olivia Chow". Olivia Chow was running in the riding of Trinity - Spadina, losing by only 805 votes. On the South-Western corner of this riding is Bulte's past riding of Parkdale High-Park. He may not be voting in Bulte's riding, but he is a science fiction author with Canadian citizenship that votes in an adjacent riding.

With Bulte having such close friends salaried by large transnational corporations headquartered in the USA and Europe, I suspect she isn't quite sure of what the concept of "foreign" really is.

Use Google to search BoingBoing for: Bulte to find the many times this author has written about this closed minded and excessively biased (hopefully outgoing) MP.

Public interest group Online Rights Canada is hosting a Balanced Meal event to coincide with the big-money/big-copyright/big-media lobbiests event for Sam Bulte.

If politicians take tens of thousands of dollars from the industries they regulate, are independent artists, educators, librarians and the general public really going to get a fair shake? So come out on Thursday, have a bite to eat, and find out how regular Canadians can get a seat at the copyright reform table.

Covered by: p2pnet

Ms. Chow's campaign office sent a copy of the NDP response to CIPPIC.

I thought Micheal Geist's column in the Star a day or so ago was excellent on Internet Issues.

Celebrated author and UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa Stephen Lewis, journalists Linda McQuaig and John Stackhouse, and anti-poverty activist Josephine Grey will query party representatives on their plans to Make Poverty History through policies of foreign aid, trade, debt and child poverty in Canada. Please read earlier articles about the connection between PCT and poverty issues.

Where:

Royal Ontario Museum (ROM)
Samuel Hall Currelly Gallery
100 Queens Park
Queens Park Entrance

When:

January 12, 2006
6:45 PM

Tickets:

Free, seats will be distributed on a first come
first served basis.

To reserve tickets contact info at cciorg.ca or call 416.967.1611 ext 221.

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

Incumbent information

Trinity–Spadina / Trinity–Spadina
MP: Hon. Tony Ianno (Parliamentary Internet)

;:Dear Sir or Madam:

;:Please find attached the .pdf file of the NDP responses to your questions. Olivia Chow, the NDP Candidate in Trinity-Spadina stands fully behind these responses. If you have other questions, please feel free to contact the campaign office at (416) 532 2227 or in person at 721 Bloor St. W. (2nd Floor).

;:Best Wishes,

;:Olivia Chow Campaign

Attached was a copy of the [NDP party response | http://www.digital-copyright.ca/node/view/405]