They changed their minds again, so no Canadian DMCA. At least not until the House is back in session at the end of January. But like I said in response to Matt’s post on the previous delay: we cannot back down now.

As Michael Geist wrote today:

“[...] this is Prentice’s moment. He has an opportunity to brush aside the momentary embarrassment of the delays and instead work toward a genuine copyright balance by reaching out to all Canadians. As astonishing number of people have voiced their concern over the past two weeks and the government seems to have listened. Now it must act by openly consulting and engaging with a country that genuinely cares about copyright.”

Personally, I don’t know how willing Mr. Prentice will be to do this… at least not without our encouragement. So keep sending letters! Keep emailing emails! Get everyone you know to join the facebook group!! (its the only reason I’ve used my account in a long time) 20, 647 people is 0.06% of Canada’s entire population, but we need *more*. We need to maintain the pressure through the holiday season, and especially in January, and until we are witness to Canada getting copyright legislature that makes us *proud* to be Canadians!

To Minister Jim Prentice, Industry Canada,

You should be ashamed of yourself. The delay in rolling out the new Canadian copyright bill earlier this week gave many Canadians hope that you would revise the bill in order to protect consumer and artist interests. Instead what we see is the Canadian government, once again, bowing down before the interests of (predominantly American) industry lobby groups and accepting their demands. This is appalling, and Canadians are outraged. Continue reading →