Since showing my support as well as concerns for the shaping of Bill C-27 which is Canada's Electronic Commerce Protection Act or anti-spam bill, I have not only been actively discussing the bill but I have also shared and asked for support from many people.

Today, I received the following email from the office of Tony Clement:

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Sent: March 11, 2010 3:32 PM
To: Lisa Chang
Subject: FW: The Electronic Commerce Protection Act

Dear Ms. Chang:

On October 22, 2009, the office of the Honourable Rob Nicholson forwarded to me a copy of your e-mail in which you express concerns regarding the Electronic Commerce Protection Act (ECPA).

The Government of Canada understand the detrimental impact that text message spam, email spam and related online threats pose to both business and consumers. As a result, during the last election campaign, the Prime Minister promised to introduce anti-spam legislation.

Further to the Prime Minister's commitment, the proposed ECPA was tabled during the last session of Parliament in the House of Commons on April 24, 2009.  It prohibits the sending of unsolicited commercial electronic messages. The proposed legislation will deter the most harmful forms of spam and related misleading online activity-such as identity theft, phishing and spyware-from occurring in Canada or being sent from Canada.  As well, with the international cooperation provisions built into the legislation, Canada will be able to work with their counterparts to combat spam.

The federal government is committed to the passage of the ECPA and will act to reintroduce the bill as quickly as possible.

I hope this information will prove useful to you and would like to thank you for taking the time to express your views on this issue. I look forward to seeing this important piece of legislation passed by Parliament.

Yours sincerely,

Tony Clement

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To show your support for Bill C-27, please support this petition:  http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/SupportC27/

The Clean Email Queen thanks everyone for their show of support!