Oh my, this would have been hilarious, if it wasn't real. CBC's Search Engine finally got an interview (10 minutes promised, [Prentice] delivered nothing but spin and outright lies about his legislation and ended up hanging up on Jesse Brown, the interviewer.It's crazy - he speaks slowly, hums and haws, ers and ummms, until the
You have to listen to this -- in it, the Minister lies, dodges, weaves and ducks around plain, simple questions like, "If the guy at my corner shop unlocks my phone, is he breaking the law?" and "If my grandfather breaks the DRM on his jazz CDs to put them on his iPod, does that break the law?" and the biggie, "All the 'freedoms' your law guarantees us can be overriden by DRM, right?" (Prentice's answer to this last one, "The market will take care of it," is absolutely priceless.)
Jim Prentice unlocked - Listen for yourself (It's the first segment).
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Yikes! Had I caught it live, I might have thrown my radio against the wall.
This Bill is still in the House, right?
Prentice was on for less than 8 minutes.
Beijing York - it hasn't passed yet. Hopefully it won't pass at all.
Thanks marc francis. I was never good with time. I fixed my post.
that's prentice for ya....that's the cons.....that's a snippet of nazi canada folks. rouse!
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