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Bill C-61 in 61 Seconds
Torontonian, former blogTO contributor, and now MTV personality (and bona fide webphile) Mark McKay has won the Fair Copyright for Canada's "Bill C61 in 61 Seconds Contest" with the entry below.
To learn more about the (insane!) proposed bill and how it may affect you, do check out Fair Copyright for Canada web site. Also, have a look at the runner ups in the contest.
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electoral issues as well. Good work.
So far both the Libs and Cons have repeatedly announced legislation (as per lobbiests requests), which the citizenry rejected. Due to the popular outcry all bills have died when the parlimentary session ended. This can go on for a very long time.
e.g. The endangered species act, took about a decade to pass.
If anyone knows how happy both sides were in the endangered species act then please chime in. I'd like to know how fair the compromise was.
So for all the copy fighters; good work and keep writing letters to your MP each time the party in power introduces, or plans to introduce an unfair law.
References: <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2000/11/16/bc001115.html";>Bill C5, passed 2005</a>, it was previously <a href="http://ring.uvic.ca/01Feb16/extinct.html";>C33 (2000), and before that C65</a>, which was <a href="http://redpath-museum.mcgill.ca/Qbp/3.Conservation/canada5.htm";>introduced in 1996</a>.
I think my favorite was this one: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU6PIXjnaHE";><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU6PIXjnaHE";>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU6PIXjnaHE<;/a></a>. Informative and simple.
But there is too much multinational media cartel money behind this pro-business anti-consumer legislation. Before long, Bill C-61 will reappear under a different name, and will stand every chance of being rammed through by a majority government.