CBC Petition update (fwd)

[Kathy Chung]

Dear List Members:

I received the following message from Betty Brightwell this morning
concerning the CBC Petition.

>
>Dear Friends,
>
>        Thank you all for your tremendous response.  I have spent 5
>weeks
>forwarding your names to the Prime Minister & to the Deputy Prime Prime
>Minister.  I have also printed hundreds of names for the Chairman of the
>CBC.   Now, however, I think we must cease & desist!  There are just too
>many messages for me to handle!  I have presented a huge pile of printed
>messages to MP
>David Anderson (see letter below)  and as of  Dec. 1, I find I am
>still,
>daily, emailing nearly 50 messages to Ottawa in 1 large batch to the PM,
>Deputy PM, MP
>David Anderson & my own Reform MP Keith Martin, this includes your email
>message below.)
>
>        If you wish, you can write to the following
>
>         The Right Hon. Jean Chretien:  at pm at pm.gc.ca
>
>         Hon. Sheila Copps at Sheila_Copps at 16139922727.iddd.tpc.int
>(this is a fax        machine)
>
>*********** to write to your own Member of Parliament via email:
>
>        type the first 5 letters of his/her surname
>        add the first letter of given name
>        add @parl.gc.ca
>
>        e.g.  martip at parl.gc.ca   (Paul Martin) or at his web site:
>                http://www.fin.gc.ca
>
>        Perrin Beatty's email address, just received is:
>                thepresident at ottawa.cbc.ca
>
>______________________________________________________
>
>Thanks again for signing the petition & forwarding it on.
>
>Betty Brightwell, Victoria, B.C.
>...................................
>
>On Saturday, Nov. 15th  the following letter was given to Hon. David
>Anderson
>Victoria's MP:
>
>Hon. David Anderson,
>View Street,
>Victoria, B.C.
>
>Dear Mr. Anderson:
>
>         Electronic "Petition" to Save CBC Radio
>        An Exercise in Electronic Democracy
>
>1.      I recognize that legally the "petition" I am giving to
>your care has no official status.  It was crafted quickly and sent out
>to a list of twenty-five friends.  The "petition", over three weeks,
>spawned to many thousands of Canadians in Canada and Canadians overseas
>who wrote back to me signifying that they do not wish your government to
>make cuts to CBC radio.
>
>2.      I hope that you, as our MP will do three things with this
>"petition":
>
>        A.  Report to your government that you have received this
>overwhelming response to an adverse decision,
>
>        B.  Personally hand this "petition" to Mr. Perrin Beatty,
>Chairman of the CBC,
>
>        C.  Ensure that I get a response to the petition, and to the
>concept of electronic democracy, in writing,  from the government and
>from Mr. Beatty.
>
>3.      I have e-mailed each of these petitions to the Prime Minister,
>though I doubt he has read them.  Copies of most have also gone to the
>Deputy Prime Minister.
>
>                We now ask that you be our messenger and ensure that our
>concern is listened to and responded to by Government.
>
>        Yours respectfully,
>
>                Betty Brightwell
>                Raging Grannies
>
>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>Date:
>        Fri, 22 Nov 1996 01:29:58 -0500
>  From:
>        perryd at pathcom.com (Douglas Perry)
>    To:
>        bbright at pinc.com
>
>
>Check out this site and circulate the co-ordinates
>
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>
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>
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