[Advisors] "digital strategy" canada?

[Brian Beaton]

Gary ... i-Canada and CATA seem to me to be great lobbyists for the private
sector to access public dollars. With this government it seems to me they
have will do very well with the programs and services listed in that
response concerning Public Access (please note my sarcasm and cynicism here
[smiles]) ... 

It is great for the private and corporate sector to be paid even more public
dollars so they can be better prepared to market, research and  charge more
for the public to access their products and services while believing they
are actually protecting and sustaining the private, capitalist system ... in
reality all they are doing is making themselves richer on the backs of
everyone else ... 

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-----Original Message-----
From: advisors-admin@tc.ca [mailto:advisors-admin@tc.ca] On Behalf Of Gary W
Kenward
Sent: February-22-13 12:57 PM
To: Marita Moll
Cc: TC Advisors; James Van Leeuwen
Subject: Re: [Advisors] "digital strategy" canada?

There's a lot of ironic humour in your comment.

Thank you.
Gary



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On 2013.02.22, at 1:58 PM, Marita Moll <mmoll@ca.inter.net> wrote:

> Ken, I don't have the answer to this question.  James has been working
really hard on getting i-Canada to understand the concept of community.
> 
> I'll pass this to him.
> 
> Marita
> 
> On 2/21/2013 11:42 PM, imaginit wrote:
>> Marita:
>> 
>>   Please clarify for me: the strategy outlined in Michael's posting lines
up with iCanada's "Innovation Nation" objectives, which focusses on
investment incentives for internet businesses? An agenda that the current
government (that is, Prime Minister Stephen Harper) can easily align himself
with?
>> 
>>   I am all for promoting investment in high tech in Canada (although not
a fan of some of the stimuli, such as SR&ED tax credits, another component
of iCanada's 'platform"). However, based upon the information provided on
iCanada's web site and it's prolific LinkedIn postings,  I find the
proposition that iCanada is working for the community to be
misrepresentative.
>> 
>>   Do you know of activities by iCanada that are aimed at directly
engaging Canadian communities, particularly rural, aboriginal, elderly and
other communities in need?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Gary
>> 
>> -----------------------------------------------
>> "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one 
>> persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
>> Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
>>     - George Bernard Shaw
>> 
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>> 
>> On 2013.02.21, at 6:43 PM, Marita Moll<mmoll@ca.inter.net>  wrote:
>> 
>>   
>>> The elements of the govt's digital strategy listed in the letter -- see
link below -- are laughable.  Maybe we should send the minister a letter
with some suggestions of what a real digital strategy might consist of.
Actually there are several articles in the collection "The Internet Tree"
which would suffice very well.  One is by our very own Garth Graham, another
by Michael Geist.
>>> 
>>> Marita
>>> 
>>> On 2/19/2013 7:05 AM, michael gurstein wrote:
>>>     
>>>> I don't know which is worse... Not having a digital strategy for 
>>>> Canada or having the kind of digital strategy that we are likely to 
>>>> get from a Harper Government :(.
>>>> 
>>>> The government's response to digital strategy critics 
>>>> <http://wordsbynowak.com/2013/02/15/digital-strateg/>
>>>> 
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