Laura Murray is an Associate Professor in the English Department of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and creator of the website www.faircopyright.ca.
Samuel Trosow is an Associate Professor at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario. He is jointly appointed in the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Information and Media Studies.
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty has responded to the British Columbia Library Association (BCLA) acknowledging their submission on the G20 summit. While he doesn’t say much in the response, (indeed he fails to acknowledge any provincial responsibility); it is good that he at least acknowledged the letter that was sent from BCLA on July 16th. BCLA had expressed concerns about "the unprecedented curtailment of civil liberties that took place in the June 2010 meeting of the G20 in Toronto" and they for a full public inquiry. No doubt the Premier is wondering why he is hearing from a library association from BC and not the Canadian Library Association (CLA) itself (or for that matter the Ontario Library Association).
As I indicated in an earlier posting , CLA has so far remained silent on the issue even though its Advisory Committee on Intellectual Freedom had recommended issuing a statement of concern.
I am an Associate Professor at the University of Western Ontario jointly appointed to the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Information and Media Studies (FIMS).
Before coming to Western, I was a law librarian at the Boalt Hall Law Library at the University of California at Berkeley and before that I was in private law practice in California. My doctoral work in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA focused on information policy issues.
