[Discuss] Stiffling debate on the new copyright law

[pw]

Corey Burger wrote:
> As has been discussed on this before, Canada looks set to pass a new
> copyright law similar to the US DMCA. However, as has been pointed
> out, absolutely no concrete information is available to the public.
> Given the Industry Ministers recent refusal to go on a CBC program,
> Search Engine, to take listeners commenters, I can only conclude that
> the Conservative gov't has concluded that a large public debate would
> generate so much negative publicity to kill the bill. This is very
> dangerous. Michael Geist has a great blog post [1], about who to
> contact about the upcoming law and to express what you feel should be
> in it.
> 
> [1] http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2431/125/
> 
> Corey
>

Your local MP.
You also need to put it in writing.
I have it on good authority that anything that is
written (letters to govt. and opposition) gets way more attention than
email or phone calls.
Get your friends to write too.
Lobbying is about noise. You need to make a lot of noise.
The good thing about your position is that you have a great number of
social contacts who know you. Same with anyone else.
So, the trick is to get everyone else to *write* too. Maybe with
an open form letter. Make sure it goes to all sides of the house.

Peter