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Subject: Fw: Canadian Email Charge
How about (that)!!!
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.
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