Canada's Copyright Notice Fiasco: Why the Government Bears Responsibility

An anonymous reader writes Canada's copyright notice fiasco, with false and misleading notices being sent to thousands of Internet users, has attracted growing attention with the government promising to address the issue. This morning, Michael Geist posts internal government documents that show that the government was aware of these risks before launching the system, but did nothing about it. The documents show that the government decided to forge ahead with the system without any regulations, despite repeated warnings that additional rules on the scope of the notices was needed.

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Re:Poor policy, as usual ...

[gstoddart]

The problem is they often spend as much (if not more) money promoting what an awesome job they're doing than they actually spend on doing that job.

They basically use public money as a PR machine for their own agenda, and their spending on advertising and promoting often outpaces the actual program spending.

So much of what they advertise is for partisan purposes.

Because it's easy to find examples of signage promoting "Canada's Action Plan at Work" where years later the sign is still up in front of an incomplete project they never actually funded.

They're all PR release, and no substance in a lot of ways.

And since they came into power on the heels of the Sponsorship Scandal, this is even more galling.

Way too many vacuous statements and claims, not nearly enough of doing anything.