hi guys,
National Post reported this as a fake yesterday,
there is no Tony Schnell from New Brunswick as an MP,
there is no law firm of Berger, Stepp and Gorman.
and i just contributed to more spam on the internet
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Subject: FW: [voyager] Only in Canada (fwd)
Author: "Darin Ritchie" [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] <mailto:[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]>
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Date: 04/22/1999 12:35 PM
Hi folks,
Just thought I'd pass along this tidbit of news I received.
I really hope that this isn't true, as it would effect all business email as
well as personal email.
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Subject: [voyager] Only in Canada (fwd)
Well, Hi There, Folks
My apologies if you have already seen this article. This applies
specifically to Canadians, but it could be the trend of the future in ALL
countries if it is allowed to happen in ONE. I am sending this to everyone
in my address book, with apologies. BUT, I hope it is of such significant
importance that you will want to do something about it... no matter what
country you are in. This seems to be the thin edge of a knife starting to
cut!!!!
I can see the Post Offices point, but as this article says, isn't this a
democratic country... as are most of those countries you all are in?
I hope this becomes, "Never In Canada", NOT "Only In Canada"!
I also hope that it does not happen in other countries!
Gil Knutson
Sardis, BC
Canada
*** A Wonderful Forwarded Message, sent by stewart grafton on 21-Apr-99,
follows: ***
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 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 e-mail 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
Berger, Stepp and Gorman
Barristers at Law
216 Bay Street
Toronto, ON
MlL 3C6
*** End of Noteworthy Forwarded Message *** Gil K. out...
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