{"id":459,"date":"2008-09-08T07:08:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T07:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=459"},"modified":"2017-01-24T22:09:18","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T03:09:18","slug":"the-race-is-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=459","title":{"rendered":"The race is on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe it was a case of election envy. With all the attention being given to the US national conventions, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalpost.com\/news\/canada\/election-2008\/story.html?id=775945\">Canada is heading to its own election<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Alec Saunders <a href=\"http:\/\/saunderslog.com\/2008\/08\/31\/why-i-will-be-voting-against-stephen-harpers-conservatives-when-an-election-is-called\/\">has said<\/a> that for him, the next election is all about Bill C-61, the government&#8217;s plan to reform Canadian copyright legislation.<\/p>\n<p>I have written a number of times over the past 6 months [eg. <a href=\"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=499\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=526\">here<\/a>] about executing on a national broadband strategy. Will any of these ideas make their way onto election platforms?<\/p>\n<p>What is important to you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe it was a case of election envy. With all the attention being given to the US national conventions, Canada is heading to its own election. Alec Saunders has said that for him, the next election is all about Bill C-61, the government&#8217;s plan to reform Canadian copyright legislation. I have written a number of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=459\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The race is on<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The race is on &#8226; Telecom Trends<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Maybe it was a case of election envy. With all the attention being given to the US national conventions, Canada is heading to its own election. 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