Earlier this evening, I attended the all-candidates meeting for my
riding, Parkdale-High Park. The photo below was taken about five
minutes before the meeting started and with people still piling in. The
seats were filled soon shortly thereafter, and it became a “standing
room only” event.
I took notes, but it’ll take a little while to transcribe them. I took
some video of the copyright/beholden-to-big-content questions aimed at
Sam Bulte, and wow, did she get testy. She even mentioned Michael Geist
and the Electronic frontier Foundation by name, in that “they’re part
of my personal demonology” tone of voice. I’ll post it as soon as I can.
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"The Liberal MP for Parkdale is having a fundraiser at the Drake Hotel for a group of music industry (etc.) leaders on January 19, next Thursday. The Drake is located at 1150 Queen St. W.
There's been talk of holding some kind of protest and I'm all for it.
Here's the gig:
We all dress up as pirates and we mass in front of the Drake, neither obstructing the business of the establishment or the patrons. There are no intelligible responses beyond YAARRRRR, ARRRR, etc. 'cos we're making a visual statement, not great copy.
Here's an article with more details.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060103/ELXN_bulte_fundraiser_060105/20060105?s_name=election2006&no_ads=
If you're up for it, let me know. We have a week to get it together. You can respond here or e-mail me at malejested@pious.org."
and, in unrelated news, kickass this sunday.
respectfully,
Dorian
Sam's first two attempts to defend the contributions were lame, "All my donations are transparent". But she caught my attention with the third strategy. [Paraphrasing] "There were only 5 people from the industry who bought tickets.... The tickets were available to anyone".
Quite frankly I've given donations to candidates (but not Bulte), and I liked the fact that I didn't have to go through a back ground check to do so.
Did these 5 people simply identify themselves using only their names?
It's a moot point for me. Bill C-60's broadly protects TPMs and she said she
would not be beholden to the interests of the EFF... which last time I checked, represents what people want.
PS: I'm the guy in the blue shirt with the red cup. Thanks for taking my pic, and welcome back to the neighbourhood.
The Video should be live in a couple of minutes, you can find it here:
http://www.youtube.com/?v=egV0LVwelwc
If you want to put it straight into your website, use this code (let's hope it isn't getting garbled):
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