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Pirate Party Of Canada
The Pirate Party of Canada (french: Parti Pirate du Canada; PPCA) was a minor party in federal Canadian politics. Founded in 2009, the party officially registered with Elections Canada in 2010. The PPCA is modelled on the Swedish Pirate Party and advocates intellectual property reform, privacy protection, network neutrality and greater government openness. No member of the party has been elected to Parliament. The party officially deregistered on November 30, 2017. Name The Pirate Party drew its inspiration from the ''Piratpartiet'', the Swedish Pirate Party. In 2001, the copyright industry established the ''Antipiratbyrån'' — The Anti-Piracy Bureau. In 2003, to combat this legislation, a group of artists, musicians, and cultural workers founded a think-tank called the ''Piratbyrån'' — the Piracy Bureau. In selecting that name, the Bureau was signalling that they were the progressive, while the ''anti''s were the regressive. In 2005, when copyright laws were harshened aga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pirate Party
Pirate Party is a label adopted by Political party, political parties around the world. Pirate parties support Civil and political rights, civil rights, direct democracy (including e-democracy) or alternatively Participatory democracy, participation in government, reform of copyright and patent law, free sharing of knowledge (open content), information privacy, Transparency (behavior), transparency, freedom of information, free speech, Political corruption, anti-corruption and net neutrality. The name ''pirate party'' alludes to online piracy; pirate parties do not represent oceangoing Piracy, pirates. Pirate parties are often considered outside of the economic left-right spectrum or to have context-dependent appeal.Simon, Otjes (22nd January 2019)All on the same boat? Voting for pirate parties in comparative perspective Political Studies Association, 2020, Vol. 40(1) no. 38–53 SAGE Publishing. Page 49: "This indicates that instead of not appealing along left-right lines at a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
