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PostPosted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 10:26 pm
 


Title: B.C.'s election gag law takes effect amid criticism
Category: Provincial Politics
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2009-02-13 11:32:54
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 10:26 pm
 


STFU BC....


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PostPosted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 10:28 pm
 


Here's the good part, buried deep in section 228:
$1:
“election advertising” means the transmission to the public by any means, during the period beginning 120 days before a campaign period and ending at the end of the campaign period, of an advertising message that promotes or opposes, directly or indirectly, a registered political party or the election of a candidate, including an advertising message that takes a position on an issue with which a registered political party or candidate is associated, but does not include

(a) the publication without charge of news, an editorial, an interview, a column, a letter, a debate, a speech or a commentary in a bona fide periodical publication or a radio or television program,

(b) the distribution of a book, or the promotion of the sale of a book, for no less than its commercial value, if the book was planned to be made available to the public regardless of whether there was to be an election,

(c) the transmission of a document directly by a person or a group to their members, employees or shareholders, or

(d) the transmission by an individual, on a non-commercial basis on the internet, or by telephone or text messaging, of his or her personal political views;


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PostPosted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 10:36 pm
 


Thank God for those exceptions. But still, what exactly is this law meant to combat... was there some epidemic in BC of 3rd party advertising in the campaign periods of the past?


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