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Election 2006 (and beyond): Digital Copyright Canada
From: keb_-at-_Cyblings.ON.CA (Krishna E. Bera)
Date: 18 Aug 2000 15:05:40 -0400
This talks about govt consultation with public via internet, and notes that facilities are inaccessible. -keb Forwarded message: > Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20000818003403.00c2c7e0@popd.netcom.ca> > Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 00:50:29 -0700 > Subject: Que Govt Online Consultation on the FTAA > Sender: mai-not-admin@lists.essential.org > List-Id: Get Involved and Take Action Against the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) <mai-not.lists.essential.org> > X-BeenThere: mai-not@lists.essential.org Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 14:18:25 -0400 To: act-mtl-d@pirg.ca From: espresso@e-scape.net (Judyth Mermelstein) Subject: QUEBEC GOV'T ONLINE CONSULTATION ON THE FTAA! Cc: club-libertel@cam.org X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by tor-smtp2.netcom.ca id OAA23810 Ad published in The Gazette today: ------------------------------------------------------------- Are you in favour? Are you against? FTAA (Free-Trade Area for the Americas) The proposed Free-Trade Area for the Americas (FTAA) will have an impact on every sector of activity in each of the 34 participating countries, representing 800 million people in total. In order to foster a public debate in Quebec on this important issue, the National Assembly is conducting a general consultation. FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, we invite you, individual citizens and organizations, to share your views online. Do you have an idea, an opinion or a question? Share it with the Members on the Committee on Institutions of the National Assembly, no later than September 8, 2000. www.assnat.qc.ca ASSEMBLÉE NATIONALE QUÉBEC ------------------------------------------------------------- My notes: 1. You will notice the absence of an alternative means of participation for people who do not have Web access. 2. A quick visit to the site with a text-based browser shows: - you need a Javascript capable browser to get the questionnaire, even though the document itself is plain HTML - the study paper (which one should probably read) is available without Javascript but is in French only, as is the downloadable PDF version (which presupposes your equipment can handle the latest Acrobat Reader - most of the sources cited by the study paper are also in French only (some English, no Spanish) - they do provide links to various useful sites where more information can be found. For the benefit of those who do not have unlimited Web access, I am including below both the main English page (which includes the non-Web contact information) and the list of URLs. Although the process is obviously not binding on the National Assembly and the Committee will decide which submissions it wants to hear, I would encourage anyone in Quebec to participate in this consultation -- preferably including an encouragement to the government to make sure any future consultations are: a) advertised sooner (the Web page is dated July 4, 2000) b) made more accessible to ALL members of the public along with your opinions on the FTAA. Regards, Judyth ------------------------------------------------- Consultation on the Free-Trade Area for the Americas (FTAA) The Committee on Institutions is conducting a general consultation on the proposed Free-Trade Area for the Americas (FTAA). The Committee deems it necessary that parliamentarians examine the economic and social impacts of such a zone and, in particular, its impacts on their ability to defend the interests of those who elected them as well as on the institutions of Québec. The Committee has undertaken this examination on its own initiative. The Committee on Institutions The Committee on Institutions is one of the ten standing parliamentary committees of the National Assembly. Composed of twelve Members, it has competence for the following sectors: justice, public security, the Constitution, the executive council, and intergovernmental and international affairs. The Online Consultation As a pilot project intended to promote the democratic use of information and communications technology the Committee on Institutions is offering the population of Québec for the first time in Québec parliamentary history, and in conjunction with the usual procedure for submitting briefs, the chance to take part in the parliamentary process online. This pilot project will allow citizens to make their views on the subject of the Free-Trade Area for the Americas known to the members of the Committee electronically by using the questionnaire designed for this purpose. In furtherance of this consultation the Committee has produced a study paper entitled: Le Québec et la ZLEA : Effets politiques et socio-économiques (Québec and the Free-Trade Area for the Americas: political and socioeconomic consequences). This document is also available in PDF format (to download and read a PDF document you will need to use Acrobat Reader, available free of charge in the website of the Adobe company). The Consultation Process The Committee on Institutions formally resolved in December 1999 to undertake a study of the impacts of the proposed Free-Trade Area for the Americas (FTAA). On Wednesday, June 21, 2000, it launched a general consultation and published its study paper. To take part in this general consultation you must submit a brief to the Committee on Institutions. Every brief must be accompanied by a concise summary of its contents, and both documents must be submitted in 25 copies printed on letter-size paper. Those who wish to have their brief forwarded to the press gallery must provide an additional 25 copies. Briefs must be received by the committees secretariat no later than September 8, 2000 To take part in the online consultation you will need to fill out an electronic questionnaire that reproduces the questions posed in the study paper Le Québec et la Zone de libre-échange des Amériques : Effets politiques et socio-économiques. Your views must reach us by September 8, 2000, at the latest. These submissions will be read, analyzed, and taken into consideration by the Committee. The Committee will thereafter select the individuals and organizations it wishes to hear from among those who have submitted a brief or filled out an electronic questionnaire. Please note that participation in the public hearings is voluntary. These hearings will begin next September 26. The Committee will subsequently table before the Assembly a report containing its conclusions, observations, and recommendations. Members of the Committee on Institutions Mr. Roger Bertrand, Member for Portneuf and Chairman of the Committee Mr. Henri-François Gautrin, Member for Verdun and Vice-Chairman of the Committee Mr. Marc Boulianne, Member for Frontenac Mr. Jacques Côté, Member for Dubuc Mr. Mario Dumont, Member for Rivière-du-Loup Mr. Jacques Dupuis, Member for Saint-Laurent Mr. Normand Jutras, Member for Drummond Mr. Michel Morin, Member for Nicolet-Yamaska Mr. François Ouimet, Member for Marquette Mr. Roger Paquin, Member for Saint-Jean Mr. Benoît Pelletier, Member for Chapleau Mrs. Céline Signori, Member for de Blainville Mr. Christos Sirros, Member for Laurier-Dorion, will also take part in the deliberations of the Committee on Institutions during its consideration of this matter. Supplementary Information General consultations Communiqué de presse du 21 juin 2000 Communiqué de presse du 3 décembre 1999 For Further Information Christian A. Comeau Clerk, Committee on Institutions 835, boul. René-Lévesque Est Bureau 3.29 Québec (Québec) (418) 643-2722 Fax (418) 643-0248 Email: ccomeau@assnat.qc.c <IMG> <IMG>Assemblée nationale du Québec ----------------------------- Sites Internet Amériques Canada : l'hémisphère cyber de la ZLEA http://www.americascanada.org/menu-f.asp Collège des Amériques http://www.oui-iohe.qc.ca/Colam/fr-indexca.htm EULABIS (European Latin American Business Information Services) http://www.eulabis.com FOCAL : Fondation canadienne pour les Amériques http://www.focal.ca Groupe de recherche sur l'intégration continentale (GRIC) Réseau québécois d'intégration continentale http://www.unites.uqam.ca/gric/index.htm INTAL (Institute for the Integration of Latin America and The Caribean) http://www.imf.org/external/np/sec/decdo/intal.htm LANIC (Latin American Network Information Center) http://info.lanic.utexas.edu Ministère canadien des Affaires étrangères et du Commerce international http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca Ministère québécois de l'Industrie et du Commerce http://www.mic.gouv.qc.ca Ministère des Relations internationales du Québec http://www.mri.gouv.qc.ca North-South Center of the University of Miami http://www.miami.edu/nsc SICE (Système d'information du commerce extérieur de l'OEA) http://www.sice.oas.org/defaultf.asp Stratégis : site d'information des affaires du Canada http://strategis.ic.gc.ca Summits of the Americas, Office of Summit follow-up, OAS http://www.summit-americas.org The Americas and the World Page de liens sur les pays des Amériques dans les domaines suivants : politique internationale, économie politique, intégration continentale, histoire, philosophie, politique, journaux, instituts, publications. http://www.unites.uqam.ca/gric/international.htm#relations Zone de libre-échange des Amériques : site officiel http://www.ftaa-alca.org ###################################################### Judyth Mermelstein "cogito ergo lego ergo cogito..." Montreal, QC <espresso@e-scape.net> ###################################################### DEFENCE of CANADIAN LIBERTY COMMITTEE/LE COMITÉ de la LIBERTÉ CANADIENNE C/0 CONSTANCE FOGAL LAW OFFICE, #401 -207 West Hastings St., Vancouver, B.C. V6B1H7 Tel: (604)687-0588; fax: (604) 872 -1504 or (604) 688-0550;cellular(604) 202 7334; E-MAIL cfogal@netcom.ca; www.canadianliberty.bc.ca Legislatures; it belongs to the country and it is there that the citizens of the country will find the protection of the rights to which they are entitled” Supreme Court of Canada A.G. of Nova Scotia and A.G. of Canada, S.C.R. 1951 pp 32 -- Krishna E. Bera "Programmer on the loose" keb@cyblings.on.ca Keep knowledge in public hands! http://petition.eurolinux.org
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