Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade reports that negotiations on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement will resume next week.
ACTA Negotiations to Continue Next Week
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ACTA
While so far its looking like the ACTA will need to be opposed much like C-61 even if it is benign that fact it is being negotiated in secret should not be accepted.
If the Canadian government wants to continue negotiating agreements with other nations that will affect Canadians and the law in Canada than it should do so in the open and reveal the contents of the ACTA and progress of the negotiations or withdraw.
Despite obvious opposition, is there anything we can really do to stop the signing of this? As far as I’ve read, there isn’t(although I’ve only read others opinions. There’s absolutely no way a minority govt should have even been allowed to even enter into such important talks (seeing as how they don’t represent the majority of the people.) Do the opposition parties even have any say as to whether this gets signed or not?
ACTA – civil rights violations
Dear bloggers,
I found out about ACTA accidentally while reading a technology page in endgadget.com.
For those who do not know ACTA is a supernational treaty that allows for border guards to look for music and computer files specifically on your ipod and charge you with
copyright crimes.
The Canadian Border Security Agency is here for the protection of citizens, not for protecting corporate profits.
I think all of us should ask CTV news to investigate this furtur. But the sad thing is no one knows about this , and all is being done in secret. There shoudl be an open parliamentary investigation into this!!!!!!!
Need some clarification here
So if ACTA is implemented, will it need to be implemented as law or something? Because that’s what it sounds like to me, and the only thing standing in the way of this is its enforcement. However, the US can just threaten sanctions (it’s the one writing this anyway) like it did to Sweden if it doesn’t get what it wants, so written law might not be required for this to be enforced.