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Dear Harold &al., I posted an earlier note pointing out that this was clearly a hoax. One indication that it was a hoax is that all bills in our federal Parliament are numbered either "C-x" if they begin in the Commons or "S-x" if they begin in the Senate. In either case x represents a conventional Arabic numeral without any additional letter. One can also check the index to Commons debates which can be found on the parliamentary web site at "parl.gc.ca". In any case, my daily review of Hansard has not indicated any such bill. Paul Rynard a doctoral candidate in poli sci at York U has also confirmed on another list that this was a hoax and that no such bill existed. Thanks for your concern, mp Harold P. Koehler wrote: > > Apr 27, 1999 > > Dear Michael and Eric: > > Have you any information on this bill? > Should we start a lobby? > Is this strictly a Canadian problem or is it a reflection of simillar > developments in USA or elsewhere? > > Sincerely, > Harold. > > ? > ? From: "paulette lachance" ?placha1@po-box.mcgill.ca? > ? To: ?Undisclosed.Recipients@sirocco.cc.mcgill.ca? > ? Subject: Fw: bill 602P > ? Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 17:37:39 -0400 > ? X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 > ? > ? > ? Please circulate widely. Thanks. Paulette > ? Received: from smtp27.bellglobal.com by l.pop50.bellglobal.com > ? (PMDF V5.1-10 #26718) with ESMTP id ?0FAK002DSKL1P0@l.pop50.bellglobal.com? > ? for b1anuz19@pop50.bellglobal.com; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 22:36:37 -0400 (EDT) > ? Received: from jasmine.vif.com (mail.vif.com [207.219.108.153]) > ? by smtp27.bellglobal.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA12263 for > ? ?medavis@sympatico.ca?; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 22:37:01 -0400 (EDT) > ? Received: from ucvcf ( ip: [207.219.108.213]) > ? by jasmine.vif.com (Sendmail Unix Vr92.1.6) > ? with SMTP id ?B0001296516@jasmine.vif.com?; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 22:36:21 -0400 > ? Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 22:36:37 -0700 > ? From: julian samuel ?jjsamuel@vif.com? > ? Subject: Subject: FW: Canada Post > ? To: " AARON W. POLLARD " ?pollard@alcor.concordia.ca? > ? Message-id: ?002001be8c82$1f0040e0$d56cdbcf@ucvcf? > ? MIME-version: 1.0 > ? X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 > ? Content-type: multipart/alternative; > ? boundary="----=_NextPart_000_001D_01BE8C47.72A168E0" > ? X-MSMail-Priority: Normal > ? X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 > ? X-Priority: 3 > ? > ? Please circulate: > ? > ? > ? > ? Subject: FW: Canada Post > ? Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 16:19:31 EDT > ? > ? Please read the following carefully if you intend to stay online and > ? continue using email: > ? > ? The last few months have revealed an alarming trend in the Government > ? of > ? Canada attempting to quietly push through legislation > ? that will affect your use of the Internet. > ? Under proposed legislation Canada Post will be attempting to bill > ? email > ? users out of "alternate postage fees". > ? Bill 602P will permit the Federal Govt to charge a 5 cent surcharge > ? on > ? every email delivered, by billing Internet Service Providers at > ? source. The consumer would then be billed in turn by the ISP. > ? Toronto lawyer Richard Stepp QC is working to prevent this > ? legislation > ? from becoming law. The Canada Post Corporation is claiming that lost > ? revenue due to the proliferation of email is costing nearly > ? $23,000,000in > ? revenue per year. You may have noticed Canada Post's recent ad > ? campaign > ? "There is nothing like a letter". Since the average citizen received > ? about 10 pieces of email per day in 1998, the cost to the typical > ? individual would be an additional 50 cents per day, or over $180 > ? dollars > ? per year, above and beyond their regular Internet costs. Note that > ? this > ? would be money paid directly to Canada Post for a service they do > ? noteven > ? provide. The whole point of the Internet is democracy and > ? non-interference. If the Canadian Government is permitted to tamper > ? with > ? our liberties by adding a surcharge to email, who knows where it > ? willend. > ? You are already paying an exhorbitant price for snail mail because of > ? beaurocratic inefficiency. > ? It currently takes up to 6 days for a letter to be delivered from > ? Mississauga to Scarborough. If Canada Post Corporation is allowed to > ? tinker with email, it will mark the end of the "free" Internet > ? inCanada. > ? One back-bencher, Liberal Tony Schnell (NB) has even suggested a > ? "twenty > ? to forty dollar per month surcharge on all Internet service" above > ? and > ? beyond the government's proposed email charges. Note that most of > ? the > ? major newspapers have ignored the story, the only exception being the > ? Toronto Star that called the idea of email surcharge "a useful > ? concept > ? who's time has come" (March 6th 1999 Editorial) Don't sit by and > ? watch > ? your freedoms erode away! Send this email to all Canadians on your > ? list > ? and tell your friends and relatives to write to their MP and say > ? "No!"to > ? Bill 602P. > ? > ? Kate Turner > ? Assistant to Richard Stepp QC > ? Berger, Stepp and Gorman > ? Barristers at Law > ? 216 Bay StreetToronto, ON M1L 3C6 > > Harold P. Koehler, 43 Napoleon Drive, London ON N5V 4A8 CANADA > E-mail hkoehler@execulink.com > Home page http://www.execulink.com/~hkoehler/index.htm > Sacred Assembly '97 http://www.execulink.com/~hkoehler/sacred97/ > Voice (519)453-5452, Fax 453-3676 -- Michael W. Posluns, The StillWaters Group, First Nations Relations & Public Policy. Please note new address: mposluns@accglobal.net Phone 416 656-8613 Fax 416 656-2715 36 Lauder Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, M6H 3E3. We offer Canadian parliamentary debates by topics and bills.
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