The Canadian government is passing a new restrictive copyright law that in the words of Cory Doctorow’s BoingBoing post, “promises to be the worst copyright law in the developed world. It will contain an “anti-circumvention” clause that prohibits breaking the locks off your music and movies in order to move them to new devices or watch them after the company that made them goes out of business — and it will follow the US’s disastrous lead with the DMCA in that there will be no exceptions to the ban on circumvention, not even for parody, fair dealing, time shifting, or other legal uses.”

You can get involved by:

• commenting w/questions for Industry Minister Jim Prentice on the CBC blog Prentice has declined to address the CBC questions.
• checking out Michael Geist’s 30 Days of DRM call to action list which includes actions like getting librarians involved and addresses of politicians to write to with your concerns. Geist also offers his analysis in the 30 Days series, which is worth a read.