The U.S. announcement of its plans to continue with the ACTA negotiations was actually part of a joint statement from all ACTA partners. The Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs has posted a similar statement, noting its plans to participate in the Morocco meeting in July 2009.
Canada Confirms ACTA Participation
June 15, 2009
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harper confirms lacky is middle name
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ACTA is teh suck
Canadian citizenship for sale. If we are going to institute warrant-free searches, a predecessor to a complete police state, I am more scared of my own government than terrorism. So citizenship for sale, cheap, you can have mine, idk if I want it.
US – EFF and PK Reluctantly Drop Lawsuit For ACTA Info
The Obama Administration’s decision to support Bush-era concealment policies has forced the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Public Knowledge (PK) to drop their lawsuit about the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA).
http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/06/20/2018255/EFF-and-PK-Reluctantly-Drop-Lawsuit-For-ACTA-Info
LETS HAVE A REFERENDUM OVER IT
Seriously put it to a vote of the people harper and see why you are all trying to UNDEMOCRATICALLY pass a set of laws that are not supporte by ANYONE but YOU and your USA cronies.
THATS treason in my minds eye as you are subverting our parliamentary system and doing it for the benefit of a foreign power.
The RIAA and MPAA are now begging to look and sound like economic terrorists world over.