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While Moore rightly confirmed that Canada will not add in-transit seizures to the bill (as the U.S. is now seeking and will try to get included in the TPP), the admission that the bill checks the necessary U.S. boxes raises the question of who is driving Canadian intellectual property policy. The last copyright reform bill included restrictive digital lock rules at the insistence of the U.S. (and over the objection of the overwhelming majority of Canadians that participated in a government consultation on copyright reform) and now the anti-counterfeiting bill is acknowledged as part of the U.S. price of admission for Canada to enter the TPP talks.


  1. Peter MacKay says:

    And they call it democracy…

  2. I had read? The US, Mexico and Canada were to form the NAU. Perhaps similar to the European Union.

    At the last meeting of the 3 Amigo’s in April? Kerry said, this is another step closer for the NAU plan.

    Harper gave a speech in New York at the meeting of Foreign Relations, Oct 25/2007. Harper fully endorsed the NAU. This has been on the books, for quite some years.

    We already have, US police operating in Canada, exempt from our laws. Two Americans Wenzel and Parker directly participated in Conservative campaigns. Front Porch Strategies are accused of the robo-calls, that came out of the US. There have been many meetings regarding, borders of the US and Canada.

  3. We need to oppose Bil C-8 pronto, if it is still possible. This scandal to me should be enough to force this government out of power. We have to find a way to tell the US in no certain terms that we are a sovereign country and abhor this kind of blackmail.