NDP Member of Parliament Charlie Angus has clearly become sick of Industry Minister Jim Prentice doing nothing about the net neutrality issue. So he’s written an open letter to him asking him to do something sooner rather than later. In the letter, he writes among other things:
“In order to ensure consumer confidence, it is incumbent upon the CRTC to examine the issue of traffic management to ensure that such interventions are not used as a convenient cover to price-gouge consumers or to degrade the quality of their competitors’ services.”
and:
“I am urging you to adopt the recommendations of the Telecommunications Review Panel in order to send a clear signal that Canada has a plan going forward to ensure continued development of internet technologies and fairness for consumers.”
Now the only question is will the Industry Minister respond. Seeing as he has proven to be completely ineffective in terms of dealing with this issue, I’m not holding my breath. Perhaps Prime Minister Steven Harper should replace him with someone with a bit more backbone if the Conservative Party is truly serious about ensuring a free market exists. Clearly Prentice isn’t serious about that as he is just paying lip service to the issue.
NDP Online Voting Gets Attacked By Hackers…… Why?
Posted in Commentary with tags Canada, Hacked, NDP on March 25, 2012 by itnerdThis weekend the New Democratic Party in Canada elected their new leader. After a lengthy voting process, Thomas Mulcair was elected. However the process that was used to elect him came under scrutiny. The NDP uses an electronic voting system that allows all their members to vote from a computer from anywhere. That system was the subject of a denial of service attack that forced the extension of voting because people couldn’t cast their vote. Now the NDP vows to get to the bottom of this by exposing the people who did this, but I have to admit that I find it strange that this would happen at all. Could it be that someone is threatened by the NDP? After all, they went from nowhere politically to being the official opposition in Parliament in the last election. And if you believe what they say, the next step is going to form the Government. That might make someone try a stunt like this. On the other hand, it could just be a couple of hackers with nothing better to do. Who knows?
Here’s the bottom line. The IP addresses have been identified. Assuming they aren’t faked, we may have answers soon.
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