Post Tagged with: "conservative"

Privacy Commissioner Drops Rosh Hashanah Card Investigation

The Canadian Press reports that federal privacy commissioner has quietly dropped her investigation into complaints that Prime Minister Stephen Harper mailed unsolicited Rosh Hashanah greetings, saying she has no jurisdiction over the matter because political parties fall outside Canada's two privacy laws.

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March 6, 2008 5 comments News

“What Would Be Their Specific Need To See?”

The privacy concerns over Prime Minister Harper's Jewish New Year cards continues as the issue has been raised repeatedly in question period and is drawing regular media coverage.  The issue could be defused by simply answering the question of where the list came from, yet when a Conservative spokesperson was […]

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October 19, 2007 4 comments News

Oda Embroiled In Another Controversy

Canadian Heritage Minister Bev Oda is facing yet another controversy, this time over a $30 million summer festival program.  Oda apparently invited Conservative MPs to come forward with suggestions of festivals for possible funding without providing a similar opportunity to MPs from other parties.  In fact, the Canadian Heritage website […]

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April 25, 2007 Comments are Disabled News

Spam Plans

I have written frequently about the need for Canada to move forward on anti-spam legislation (I was a member of the National Task Force on Spam that unanimously concluded that such laws are needed).  More recently, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada echoed the call for anti-spam legislation.  This week, both […]

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March 15, 2007 6 comments News