[Jake Daynes]

NAME/NOM: Jake Daynes
PROVINCE: British Columbia
RIDING/CIRCONSCRIPTION: Nanaimo-Alberni

PARTY INVOLVEMENT / PARTICIPATION DE PARTI:
I started my history with the party on June 12th of 2009 when I joined the then forum and homepage alongside Rob Britton and Stephane Bakhos. Acting as Public Relations and Marketing Director, I have helped this party continue and grow, alongside Stephane and the rest of the current Administrative team.

POLITICAL EXPERIENCE / L'EXPÉRIENCE POLITIQUE:
My political experience is limited to knowledge gained through family members, and through my activities in this Party.

CONFLICTS OF INTEREST / CONFLITS D'INTÉRÊTS:
None.

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT / PARTICIPATION DE LA COMMUNAUTÉ:
I have strong familial ties to the Nanaimo-Alberni riding, and have been involved in various community committees and groups throughout my years of growing up in the riding. As I am legally mandated to run for office, I have decided on running in my familial home riding for those reasons. Over the years I have build a solid contact network in the riding, and hope to use this to get our platform across.

PLATFORM / MANIFESTE:

Nanaimo is fast becoming a university town, and as such education is always a great concern. Our stance on Copyright and Patents is of huge benefit to students and educators alike, allowing material to enter the public domain much easier, and cutting down on costs for students through textbooks and material. As a post secondary graduate myself, I know firsthand that such fees will make or break an individual's hope to go back to school and I believe that as a world leader, Canada needs to be able to offer the best education opportunities to her citizens.

In terms of Healthcare, Patent Reform will revolutionize the way our system works; allowing generic drugs to come out more quickly and causing a large amount of growth of research into new drugs. This would effectively lower the overall cost to healthcare in Canada.

Government transparency is an issue that has long plagued Canada, and I feel it needs to not only be addressed, but dealt with. MPs should not be able to turn down audit requests, and the government should have to make public, all decisions made by them for public scrutiny, as well as info on the process as to how they were made, and by whom. This comes down to affect our military in terms of things such as the Guantanamo Bay detainees, and in general, all other aspects of our government.

If I send a letter to a friend, that letter is protected under federal law, from the point that I put it in the mailbox, to the time it is put in my friends'; an email is no different from a letter, and is a personal, private communication. This means that the postal secret should be extended to online communication as well. The postal secret is a piece of legislation that cannot afford to be left behind in the advent of new technology, and neither is the individual's right to privacy.

Net Neutrality. Two simple words to describe a surmounting issue. The discrimination against a specific protocol, is a form of controlling how users use the bandwidth they have paid for. This is comparable to your phone provider lowering your call quality when you are talking about switching networks. In a case where congestion becomes an issue, the users that have been shown to abuse their bandwidth should be throttled in general, not the specific protocols of everybody that is in all likelihood, not causing the congestion. This is about getting what you pay for, and making sure that everybody gets what they paid for.

Thank you for your time.

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[Nuitari]

SECONDED

[Concerned Citizen]

If I send a letter to a friend, that letter is protected under federal law, from the point that I put it in the mailbox, to the time it is put in my friends'; an email is no different from a letter, and is a personal, private communication. This means that the postal secret should be extended to online communication as well. The postal secret is a piece of legislation that cannot afford to be left behind in the advent of new technology, and neither is the individual's right to privacy.

Net Neutrality. Two simple words to describe a surmounting issue. The discrimination against a specific protocol, is a form of controlling how users use the bandwidth they have paid for. This is comparable to your phone provider lowering your call quality when you are talking about switching networks. In a case where congestion becomes an issue, the users that have been shown to abuse their bandwidth should be throttled in general, not the specific protocols of everybody that is in all likelihood, not causing the congestion. This is about getting what you pay for, and making sure that everybody gets what they paid for.

Thank you for your time.

PLEASE REPLY WITH "SECONDED" TO SECOND THIS APPLICATION. YOU MAY ALSO ASK QUESTIONS OF THE APPLICANT IN THIS THREAD.

I'd totally Third this one...

Great platform. I never really knew about this 'postal secret' legislation. The problem with email is technical (although having some legislative protections couldn't hurt), right now you can make it so that your email is more secure than the postal system with the power of encryption at your fingertips as more or less the only ones with the keys will be able to read it (without a massive investment in CPU cycles). The problem is that most encryption stuff is far too complex and difficult for the average person to use it for their email unfortunately otherwise EVERYONE would do it.

Yes the entirety of the net neutrality issue is discrimination against bittorrent. If only we could get ISPs and the BT Client writers together to decrease the impact BT has on the network. I know some techniques that would potentially help. I think the problem is that ISPs are collectively putting their fingers in their ears and going 'lalalalala we dont hear you'

[Mikkel Paulson]

This application is now scheduled to be voted on at the July 19th, 2010 General Meeting.

[Mikkel Paulson]

On July 19, 2010, the election of Jake Daynes for Candidate in Nanaimo—Alberni passed with a vote of 36 yea / 1 nay / 3 abstain. He will represent the Pirate Party of Canada in the next federal election.

[Jay Frank]

HUZZAH!
HUZZAH!
HUZZAH!

You best get the campaign under way before an election is even called m8.
Anything I can do to help, just ask.

J