More than 100 groups have issued a public letter calling on the U.S., Canada, and other ACTA-negotiating countries to immediately publish the draft text of the agreement. I agreed to serve as the Canadian contact on the release.
Groups Call for ACTA Transparency
September 16, 2008
Share this post
3 Comments

Law Bytes
Episode 272: Build Canada’s Lucy Hargreaves on Canada’s AI Strategy and the Need to Shift From Being Users to Builders
byMichael Geist

May 25, 2026
Michael Geist
May 11, 2026
Michael Geist
Search Results placeholder
Michael Geist on Substack
Recent Posts
Midnight Madness: The Government Rushes Lawful Access Bill Through the House Without Debate or a Recorded Vote
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Bill C-36 Modernizes Canada’s Privacy Law, Then Delays It to 2030
Gary Anandasangaree’s Vic Toews Moment Shows the Government Has Lost Its Way on Lawful Access
Government Moves to Shut Down Lawful Access Hearing In Order To Fast Track Passing the Bill This Week
Canada’s Digital Super-Regulator: Bill C-36 Pushes Out the Privacy Commissioner and Hands Private Sector Privacy to an Overloaded Commission

Hackin ACTA
Your only going to see what us hackers wish you to see.
acta
you’re the local rep…
both techdirt and EFF are raising cain about it..
you’ve dumbed down to what, single issue responses?
make waves, mr. g. make some waves.
C-61
Just caught a /. posting on this today and had a thought. If this really is something that “could include an agreement for the US, Canada, the European Commission and other nations to enforce each others’ IP laws, with residents of each country subject to criminal charges when violating the IP laws of another country”, wouldn’t that be an effective means of getting a Canadian DMCA without actually getting one? Kind of largely side steps that whole parliamentary process doesn’t it?