Fwd: E-MAIL SURCHARGE

[Tony Abou-Assaleh]

It's a hoax. If you 'send this' in the message, ask Google if it is a
hoax :O)

Cheers,

TAA


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Tony Abou-Assaleh
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On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Stewart Sinclair wrote:

> Does anyone know anything about this?
>
> Stew
> ****
>
> Subject: E-MAIL SURCHARGE
> From: shanaz meghji <shanaz-meghji-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org>
> Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 23:45:20 -0400 (EDT)
> To: Parin Visanji <pvisanji-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org>
>
> E-MAIL SURCHARGE
>
>   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 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 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.
>
> Kate Turner Assistant to Richard Stepp QC
> Berger, Stepp and Gorman Barristers at Law
> 216 Bay Street Toronto, ON MlL 3C6
>
>
> GULAM RAJANI
>
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