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

Member of Parliament for Burnaby-Douglas / Burnaby - Douglas

Name: Bill Siksay
e-Mail: <Siksay.B@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".

• Gary Schellenberger (Perth—Wellington, Conservative, Chair) re-elected
  
• Maria Mourani (Ahuntsic, Bloc, co-chair) re-elected
  
• Andy Scott (Liberal, co-chair) did not run
  
• Jim Abbott (Kootenay—Columbia, Conservative) re-elected
  
• Michael D. Chong (Wellington—Halton Hills, Conservative) re-elected
  
• Dean Del Mastro (Peterborough, Conservative) re-elected
  
• Denis Coderre (Bourassa, Liberal) re-elected
  
• Ed Fast (Abbotsford, Consrvative) re-elected
  
• Hedy Fry (Vancouver Centre, Liberal) re-elected
  
• Luc Malo (Verchères—Les Patriotes, Bloc) re-elected
  
• Bill Siksay (Burnaby—Douglas, NDP) re-elected
  
• Francis Scarpaleggia (Lac-Saint-Louis, Liberal) re-elected
  

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)

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.

There is now a first issue of This Week in Vancouver, intended to be the weekly newsletter of Vancouver Fair Copyright. It includes a link to their MP Meetings which describes what meetings have already happened.

In many of the comments about Bill C-61 on BLOGS all across Canada you can hear people saying that all the parties are the same, and that we need a Canadian Pirate Party. The Pirate Party (Swedish: Piratpartiet) is a political party in Sweden that focus on one issue: reforming of so-called "Intellectual Property" laws such as patent, copyright, trademark and other related laws (also called PCT) to better integrate with a modern technological and participatory society.

There is, however, something exciting happening in one party that warrants a closer look for those who think fair copyright reform is important, and that is the NDP.

Read full article on p2pnet >>

See also: Copyright in Canada by Jon Newton which hilights a number of related articles.

Burnaby-Douglas Link is a monthly publication produced by Hon. MP Bill Siksay's office and is sent to every household in the Burnaby-Douglas riding. On the front cover of Burnaby-Douglas Link's July 2008 issue (png image), MP Siksay discusses in length the negative impacts that Bill C-61 will bring upon Canadians and describes his position on the said bill. The following is a text copy.

Dear Friends,

As I write, Parliament has just recessed for the summer.

Charlie Angus has tabled Private Members Bill C-522. The following is the excerpt from Hansard where Mr. Angus tabled the bill.

Mr. Charlie Angus (Timmins—James Bay, NDP)

moved for leave to introduce Bill C-552, An Act to amend the Telecommunications Act (Internet Neutrality).