{"id":338,"date":"2008-06-24T15:10:33","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T20:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikew.ca\/wp\/?p=338"},"modified":"2025-01-13T20:53:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T20:53:30","slug":"bill-c-61-ugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/?p=338","title":{"rendered":"Bill C-61. Ugh."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I saw Pookzilla’s post<\/a> — link left for posterity, even though it looks like their blog is gone<\/a> forever<\/em> — about C-61, and that reminded me that I hadn’t blogged about this yet. I too think that C-61 is an epic fail, and for the first time ever, I felt sufficiently strongly about it that I wrote my MP. Here’s what I wrote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\nSir,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am writing to express my strongest possible displeasure with the new bill C-61. This bill is a sledgehammer, where deftness is required. In a misguided attempt to prevent a small number of illegal activities, it will introduce new, significant constraints on the legitimate activities of all Canadians. As one small example, imagine a world where, as a parent, you could no longer load one of your children’s MP3 players with songs you had legitimately downloaded — that is a very real, likely outcome of this bill. The impact will be far reaching, and serious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please research the situation as thoroughly as possible, with particular reference to those who do *not* have a vested interest in profit over the rights of Canadians, and vote appropriately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For context, I am a 48 year old member of your constituency who is:
– a software architect (see http:\/\/www.eclipse.org\/eclipse\/team-leaders.php)
– a published author (http:\/\/safari.awprofessional.com\/0321256638)
– an electronic musician (http:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/?p=336)
– and a member of an orchestra (http:\/\/www.divertimento.ca)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite being an obvious potential beneficiary of some of the provisions of the current bill, I feel that it should be strongly apposed. This is the first (and may in be the only) time you hear from me. Please do net let this effort be wasted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With complete sincerity,
\nMike Wilson\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I saw Pookzilla’s post — link left for posterity, even though it looks like their blog is gone forever — about C-61, and that reminded me that I hadn’t blogged about this yet. I too think that C-61 is an epic fail, and for the first time ever, I felt sufficiently strongly about it that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[57,96,120],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mcq","tag-freedom","tag-music","tag-shit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3177,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/3177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}