Call to arm!
Ok – if you live in the Parkdale/High Park riding, please read this: I don’t care who you vote for next election, but there has to be someone better than disingenuous money-grabbing Sam Bulte.
Mrs Bulte is NOT working for the people that elected her: She is working for the big business that gave her money to fool you into voting for her, and buy air time to tell you how she would best represent you.
Guess what? She lied.
Either that, or she is so completely incompetent that she has no clue of the implications regarding the DRM/Copyright issues, yet has the arrogance of proposing legislations that would have a profound impact on your life, on how, when and where you can use media (movies, music) that you actually PAID for, among others. On how media companies can stealthily install software on your computer, legally, to “protect their rights”.
THEY gave her the big money, because they expect to make money from the laws she proposes – and guess from who’s pocket that money will come? Yeah, right.
So we learned a bit about her character for that price. Let’s NOT be fooled twice.
From Boing BoingThe Story so far
Hollywood’s MP denounces “users,” “EFF members”
Last night at an all-candidates meeting, the Canadian Member of Parliament who takes large campaign contributions from the entertainment industry and delivers American-style copyright laws in return was confronted by her constituents, who demanded that she account for her actions.
Sam Bulte is the Liberal MP for Parkdale/High Park, and is running for her third term in office. Her second campaign was funded through extraordinary donations from large publishing, entertainment and pharmaceutical companies, and her second term was marked by US-style copyright extremism in the form of legislative proposals and reports that mirror the worst of America’s copyright laws, which have sparked a war between artists and their fans, criminalizing tens of millions of Americans.
Copyright scholar Michael Geist and his CIPPIC clinic at the University of Ottawa have has formulated a “copyright pledge” in which they call on law-makers who make copyright law to turn away any funding from the entertainment industry, to make it clear that their campaign funding does not influence their work in government.
In this video, shot by AccordionGuy, a geek who lives in her riding (district), Bulte is asked whether she will take the pledge, and she responds with bile, vowing not to allow “Michael Geist and his pro-user zealots, and Electronic Frontier Foundation members” to “intimidate her.” Her entire response is an embarrassment to her and her party, and it’s must-see video for anyone going to the polls in Parkdale/High Park.