The Conservative government's proposed copyright reform legislation has been in the works for years and has been brought before Parliament four different times, most recently in September 2011.
The bill, now known as Bill C-11, has a bad habit of dying when governments fall or elections are called.
But C-11 has been getting a lot of buzz lately, partly as a result of the wave of objection to SOPA and PIPA, two copyright bills in the U.S. designed to fight online piracy.
They keep trying, and trying, and trying...
http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2012/02/is-bill-c-11-the-right-way-to-reform-copyright.htmlIt's very
trying.
Take another stab at stopping this:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/canada_bill_c11/?copy