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Politics : Canadian Political Free-for-All -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck who wrote (2669)	5/27/2003 10:01:01 AM
From: lorne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 37263

Darren. Don't have a link for this as it was sent to me by email. If this is true how come we don't see it on front page news? >Please pass on to other friends, just one more problem >Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2003 6:58 AM >Subject: Fw: Charge by Canada's government for e-mail!!!! > >Subject: Charge by Canada's government for e-mail!!!! > >I looked this up, and sure enough it is on the list of bills for the Government of Canada. >Geri > >Subject: Canadian Email Charge > > >Canadian Email Charge >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 $23,000,000 in 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 not even 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 will end. 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 in Canada. 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.