Re: HOAX: Fwd: RE: federal e-mail tax????

[Rabid Wombat <wombat@mayhem.snakecult.org>]

Correction:

The Toronto lawyer used to exist. He was killed in a tragic accident when
he was inadvertantly scooped up by a firefighting helicopter while scuba
diving off the coast of France, and dropped from 500 feet into the blaze.
Authorities were baffled to find his charred, wet-suit clad remains over
40 miles from the nearest body of water.

Please forward this message to as many people as possible, and you will
have good luck. If you do not forward this message to at least 5.2 people
within 23.1 hours, Bad Things(tm) will happen to a dying boy in New Jersey
whose last wish is to recieve a free trip to Disney World from Bill Gates
for sending email which will be tracked by Microsoft. Please add your
address to the bottom of this list, and if people are stupid enough to
send you a dollar you will be rich, unless they send Canadian dollars,
which are called looneys, and are still worth a bit more than lira. Lira
is not the capitol of Peru, which is a place south of Tennesee, the home
Al Gore, who is the father of the Internet, which will be taxed into
oblivion by government authorites unless you act now!

-r.w.

On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Jean-Francois Avon wrote:

> 
> I, too, tried to locate the barrister's firm of Berger, Stepp and Gorman but 
> could not locate it.  I used http://canada411.sympatico.ca/
> 
> Garry Breitkreuz is a canadian federal MP (Reform Party).
> 
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> >From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" <BreitG0@parl.gc.ca>
> >To: "'dave hammond'" <dhammond@cadvision.com>
> >Subject: RE: federal e-mail tax????
> >Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 15:30:02 -0400
> 
> >Dear Dave:
> >
> >1.Bill 602P does not exist. 
> >2.Neither the government or Canada Post are preparing to table legislation
> >of this nature.
> >
> >A Reform MP, has attempted to contact the Toronto lawyer who is working to
> >stop this legislation.  Apparently, the individual and the firm and do not
> >exist.
> >
> >Thanks, Dennis
> 
> [Dennis Young is the Parliementary assistant to the Hon. Breitkreuz]
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> [via the Canadian Firearms Digest]
> 
> Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 05:39:43 -0600
> From: "Steven W. Klassen" <steve@geonexuscorp.com>
> Subject: surcharge on email
> 
> The following was sent to me by a friend.
> 
> Steve Klassen (klassens@acm.org)
> 
> 
> - -----Original Message-----
> From: <name withheld> 
> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 1999 1:42 PM
> Subject: ...
> 
> Internet Subscriber:
> 
> 
> Please read the following carefully if you intend to stay online and
> continue using email:
> 
> 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 additional 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 beaurocratic 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
> 
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