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The following is a letter to my MP. David McGuinty, my MP for Ottawa South, I find the processes involving analog-era communications companies to be very problematic.  This latest note from Mr Geist is only an example. Super-Secret Submissions: Corus and SaskTel Block Disclosure of Their BTLR Submissions Claiming Prejudice to Their Competitive Position Submissions to the government should be proactively disclosed during the process, so errors and/or misinformation from lobbiests can be corrected by the public.  The government should not be allowing submissions to be claimed proprietary, except when specific proprietary information is required by regulatory agency -- never for a consultation process. I say analog-era as many of these vertically integrated companies are structured the way they are due to limitations with analog communications technology.  Analog communications technology required that a wire or part of spectrum be dedicated to an application.  With dig...

(This is a letter in an ongoing dialog with a few members of federal parliament. This email was added to the list of submissions for the Copyright Board consultation.) David McGuinty, my MP in Ottawa South, David Graham, MP (Laurentides — Labelle), The Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Canadian Heritage, The Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, Copyright Board Consultations I would like to thank David McGuinty for forwarding the September 8, 2017 letter from Minister Joly. This was a response to my May 1, 2017 letter titled “Myth: Fair use decimated educational publishing in Canada”. My letter highlighting some of what might colloquially be referred to as “fake news” being spread globally, primarily sourced from Access Copyright, a Canadian Collective Society. The National Copyright Unit of Australia felt this myth spreading required a response [1] As this myth primarily relates to an ongoing dispute between a collective society and pr...

Last evening I wrote the following to David McGuinty, my MP in Ottawa South . I am disappointed at the decision you and other Liberals made on C-51.  While I have voted for you multiple times in the past, I am now put in a position of no longer being able to do so. While the Harper Conservatives promote the idea that the next election will be between them and the Liberals, the Liberals stand too close on the most important issues for that to hold any truth.   If we had electoral reform it wouldn't matter as much, but given we don't I will need to spend the next election campaigning to ensure those who don't want to split the vote must keep away from Liberals. It won't be anything against you personally. The "lawful access" aspects of C-51 are so bad I simply can't vote for anyone who voted for it. For anyone who does not know me, I should put this letter in context.  I am not a participant in armchair politics, where I sit there at home or with close frien...