Liberal MP Garth Turner held a huge town-hall meeting with Stephane Dion on Wednesday night that included a question and answer session with several dozen bloggers. Reports indicate that copyright was one of the issues raised with Dion promising to revise C-61 to strike a better balance between consumers and […]
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Liberals Try To Resuscitate Big Brother Plan for the Internet
My weekly Law Bytes column (Ottawa Citizen version, homepage version) covers the Liberals' introduction of C-416, the return of lawful access legislation. I note that while the bill is unlikely to pass – opposition private members bills rarely become law and the current Parliamentary session is likely to end before […]
Liberals Try To Resuscitate Big Brother Plan for the Internet
Appeared in the Ottawa Citizen on March 27, 2007 as Liberals Try to Resuscitate Big Brother Plan for the Internet As Canada's political parties gear up for a possible spring election, political commentators have noted a surprising role reversal, with the Conservatives launching a series of new spending initiatives in […]
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 […]
Conservatives for Fair Use?
The Canadian Press reports that there is speculation that the latest round of Conservative attack ads may violate someone's copyright. The ads, which show brief clips from a Liberal debate last year, apparently were filmed by a consortium of broadcasters who say that they did not provide the Conservatives with […]
