Posted on: 31-10-05 19:44:39
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
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 bureaucratic 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
Ahem! April Fools Day is on April 1st. Today is Halloween 
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blemtax2.htm
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Microsoft - Which end of the stick do you want today?
A legislation like that , if at all is passed, will surely take stop progress in this rapidly changing hi tech world and end result is ,this country will go back in time
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Non illigitamus carborundum
I apologize for posting if it is false , however if it's true... then you can imagine the height of taxation..!!!!
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Orginally posted by goldeneye
A legislation like that , if at all is passed, will surely take stop progress in this rapidly changing hi tech world and end result is ,this country will go back in time
Don't believe everything they tell you. The bill is a hoax. See the link above.
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Microsoft - Which end of the stick do you want today?
Although would be nice in a way if this was true.........no more retarded and useless forwards or even 1 or 2 line emails and best of all no junk mails at all.
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