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E-mail charges proposed by Canada Post AND legislation is going forward.
The last few months have revealed that the Government of Canada is
attempting to quietly push through legislation that will affect your use
of the Internet.
Under proposed legislation Canada Post will be allowed to bill email
users out of "alternate postage fees". Bill 602P will permit the Federal
Government 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's nothing
like a letter".
The average citizen receives about 10 pieces of email per day. Since
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
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 bureaucratic inefficiency. It currently takes up to 6
days for a letter to be delivered from Mississauga to Scarborough or
longer from Vancouver to Calgary. If Canada Post Corporation is allowed
to tinker with email, it will mark the end of the "free" Internet in
Canada. One back-bencher, Tony Schnell (NB) has even suggested a "twenty
to forty dollar per month surcharge on all Internet service" above and
beyond the governments 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
E-mail charges proposed by Canada Post AND legislation is going forward.
The last few months have revealed that the Government of Canada is
attempting to quietly push through legislation that will affect your use
of the Internet.
Under proposed legislation Canada Post will be allowed to bill email
users out of "alternate postage fees". Bill 602P will permit the Federal
Government 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's nothing
like a letter".
The average citizen receives about 10 pieces of email per day. Since
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
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 bureaucratic inefficiency. It currently takes up to 6
days for a letter to be delivered from Mississauga to Scarborough or
longer from Vancouver to Calgary. If Canada Post Corporation is allowed
to tinker with email, it will mark the end of the "free" Internet in
Canada. One back-bencher, Tony Schnell (NB) has even suggested a "twenty
to forty dollar per month surcharge on all Internet service" above and
beyond the governments 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