U.S. Rejects Canadian Rejection of DMCA

P Starrson writes " Slashdot readers may recall that last month Canadian policy makers rejected the DMCA for Canada. Not so fast apparently -- the U.S. Trade Representative has released the annual Section 301 report which each year tells the rest of the world that they need stronger intellectual property protection. This year Canada is a particular target -- the U.S. plans to conduct a special review of Canadian policies and explicitly rejects Canada's rejection of the DMCA. A good summary on what this means from Canadian law professor Michael Geist."

Comments

Re:As a Canadian...

[Pig Hogger]

If you want to be sovereign, I have no problem with that, as long as you come up with your own currency, rather than use the Canadian dollar, sever all ties to Ottawa immediately, including all financial transfers, and don't come asking for foreign aid when you find out it's a tough slog.

We can use any goddammed fucking currency we want, and there is sweet fuck-all you can do about it, not any more what the USA can do against Cuba using US dollars.
As of the financial transfers, they are actually on the level of $325 per year per capita (this is not even half my monthly rent), so we can very well afford that, thank-you very much, and as of the foreign aid, we won't need any as we are perfectly capable of running our own business ourselves, like we already control 35% of CANADIAN industrial equity (which is 10% more than our demographic weight).
So, if you show that you believe all the stupid lies peddled by the Moronto-based incompetent family compact of Ontario, you will not have much credibility. So, next time, do your homework and prepare for the inevitable: the next referendum will be winning.

Re:For St Peter's sake

[Jim_Callahan]

In all fairness to Bush, it is rather nice to have a president who actually reacts to threats, declarations of enimity, and people blowing up american citizens. I still find it hard to look back on the policies of Will "Hey, some terrorists bombed our soldiers and embassies, but that's ok 'cause I don't care about my country" Clinton with any real fondness. "Wasn't completely awful" is about as high a praise as I can give those eight years of poor policy descisions, and even then I'd be exaggerating a bit.