Comments on: Update on the National Do Not Call Registry http://www.robhyndman.com/2005/09/15/update-on-the-national-do-not-call-registry/ any technology distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:44:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: garry culhane http://www.robhyndman.com/2005/09/15/update-on-the-national-do-not-call-registry/#comment-244 garry culhane Mon, 26 Sep 2005 19:06:44 +0000 http://www.robhyndman.com/2005/09/15/update-on-the-nation-do-not-call-registry/#comment-244 The Minister's address is : Hon. David Emerson, Min. Dept of Industry And Trade, House of Commons, Ottawa, KIA 0A6 If you read the bill as amended, it is quite startling to see how far into reverse the Committee has gone, how little a number of the members speaking have understood the issues, and most unhappy of all, how completely they are responsive to what they are being told. Transcript of deliberations is available through the Fed.Gov Website, The Canada Site. Emerson's butler stiffly informs the citizen that the tradesmen's entrance is at the rear, and they only see the poor on Wednesdays, that is, the committee is fiinished and after the bill is returned to the House the citizen may comment on some future occasion. The Minister’s address is : Hon. David Emerson, Min. Dept of Industry And Trade, House of Commons, Ottawa, KIA 0A6

If you read the bill as amended, it is quite startling to see how far into reverse the Committee has gone, how little a number of the members speaking have understood the issues, and most unhappy of all, how completely they are responsive to what they are being told. Transcript of deliberations is available through the Fed.Gov Website, The Canada Site. Emerson’s butler stiffly informs the citizen that the tradesmen’s entrance is at the rear, and they only see the poor on Wednesdays, that is, the committee is fiinished and after the bill is returned to the House the citizen may comment on some future occasion.

]]> By: Rob Hyndman http://www.robhyndman.com/2005/09/15/update-on-the-national-do-not-call-registry/#comment-240 Rob Hyndman Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:33:03 +0000 http://www.robhyndman.com/2005/09/15/update-on-the-nation-do-not-call-registry/#comment-240 That's my thinking exactly, Garry - I don't understand why "just say no" doesn't seem to be enough in this case. Our elected representatives ought to allow us to control who has the right to intrude on our lives. If you have it handy, could you post the addresses you used to write to Emerson and the PMO? That’s my thinking exactly, Garry - I don’t understand why “just say no” doesn’t seem to be enough in this case. Our elected representatives ought to allow us to control who has the right to intrude on our lives.

If you have it handy, could you post the addresses you used to write to Emerson and the PMO?

]]> By: garry culhane http://www.robhyndman.com/2005/09/15/update-on-the-national-do-not-call-registry/#comment-239 garry culhane Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:06:21 +0000 http://www.robhyndman.com/2005/09/15/update-on-the-nation-do-not-call-registry/#comment-239 I have written to Emersons' office but was dusted off by a fairly snooty type, and got the impression they do not want to be disturbed, so I sent the next letter to the PM. What bothered me is that so far from a do not call list it has been turned upside down to guarantee the "right" of various groups to bother us at the dinner hour, just as the writer you cite has said. If the big media is freezing out genuine news on that they are even worse than I thought. The people who should be available to raise the issue have perhaps themselves been influenced by getting on the list as well, like political parties. The resulting position is just not tolerable: no one has a right to abuse the whole population through systematic trespass, for that is what it is. A statute protected privilege to trespass against personal privacy amounts to the legalization of a tort. I have written to Emersons’ office but was dusted off by a fairly snooty type, and got the impression they do not want to be disturbed, so I sent the next letter to the PM. What bothered me is that so far from a do not call list it has been turned upside down to guarantee the “right” of various groups to bother us at the dinner hour, just as the writer you cite has said. If the big media is freezing out genuine news on that they are even worse than I thought. The people who should be available to raise the issue have perhaps themselves been influenced by getting on the list as well, like political parties.

The resulting position is just not tolerable: no one has a right to abuse the whole population through systematic trespass, for that is what it is. A statute protected privilege to trespass against personal privacy
amounts to the legalization of a tort.

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