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Internet Subscriber:
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 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 disclaiming
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 exorbitant 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 6th1999 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.
Kate Turner
Assistant to Richard Stepp QC"
36th Parliament
Lists of Members by Province and Territory
http://WWW.Parl.GC.CA/36/senmemb/house/ProvinceList.asp?Lang=E
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To mi tak troche przypomina ogolnie podatki w Kanadzie- obciaza sie
podatkiem zwloki, bez wzgledu na sposob pochowka, uzasadniajac to "strata
dla panstwa z tytulu zaprzestania placenia podatkow".
Oj, zaczynam powoli lubiec listowiczow- zwolennikow placenia ekstra
podatkow, glownie za ich poczucie czarnego humoru. Teraz beda uderzeni
kolejnym, za niedokonane uslugi, przy czym ewnetualna nadwyzke przenaczy
sie na darmowe znaczki dla samotnych matek, celem oplaty za pisanie listow
protestujacych przeciwko dominacji "mezczyzn w robieniu dzieci"(autentyczny
cytat z Globe and Mail).
Wilhelm Glowacki
