Fwd: E-MAIL SURCHARGE

[Zoltan]

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...

This one seems to have a life of it's own, Google "Bill  602P" and you 
get a few interesting links.

Basically the one you got is a Canadianized (are they guys working on a 
French-language one next?) version of a U.S. hox, pretty much replacing 
the U.S.-specific text with Canadian references, e.g. "U.S. Postal 
Service" becomes "Canada Post", "Washingtonian" becomes "Toronto Star", 
"congressman, Tony Schnell (r)" becomes a Liberal(!?), etc.

It's kind of interesting they took the time to make some of the facts 
hard to check (who's going to look for a 'Star editorial from 1999, or 
look up a MP from New Brunswick, ok, on that one they could go to 
http://www.howdtheyvote.ca/ for that one). But they missed the simple 
things - bills in Canada (or the UK, maybe most comonwealth countries 
too) are labled "Bill C-###" (coming from the House of Commons) or "Bill 
S-xxx " (Senate).  At least they got the spellings right :)

Website tracks MPs' voting habits 
(http://www.yyztech.ca/page.php?PageID=114&RecordID=132&SectionID=2)

Oh well, some fun for Tuesay,
Zoltan

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