We've Come A Long Way

Your OpenMedia.ca team has been working hard and winning big to secure Canada’s digital future. We’ve come a long way, but there’s still more we must do. Today we’re launching our crucial year-end fundraising drive. We’re a community-backed organization – your monthly contributions are what make our work possible. Will you consider becoming a valued OpenMedia.ca monthly donor Ally today?

The thing we love about the open Internet is the way it empowers people. It’s a place where anyone can speak truth to power, spread world-changing ideas, and share their creations.
That’s exactly why powerful interests want to control, monitor, and censor your access to the open Internet. They’re hoping we’ll tire out and let them get back to business as usual.

I’m asking you to join OpenMedia.ca now during our crucial monthly contributors drive. We’ve made so much progress and we have a plan - but monthly donations are necessary for us to continue.

Thanks to your support, we’ve fought back to protect the open Internet. Here’s some of what we’ve done together:

1. Thrown a huge wrench into the TPP’s secretive and invasive Internet censorship plan.¹ With the sustained pressure of over 120,000 community members, Canada is pushing back against extreme U.S. proposals.
2. Won new customer-protection rules that have made it easier for you to switch to a more affordable cell phone provider, support independent telecom options, and protect us all from ridiculous roaming charges – the next steps after our success against metered Internet billing.^{2 3}
3. Stood up to the Government’s costly, secretive, and out-of-control spying on innocent citizens after successfully defeating Vic Toews’ earlier online spying plan.⁴

Your support made these wins possible. We won’t stop fighting until Canadians get the open, affordable, and surveillance-free Internet they deserve. Will you please consider becoming a valued OpenMedia.ca monthly contributor today?

Threats to the open Internet come from secretive Big Media lobbyists, price-gouging Big Telecom, and power-hungry governments. Together, they’d benefit if our digital future was locked-down, expensive, and closely monitored by secretive authorities.
They’ve got millions of dollars in advertising budgets, lobbyists, and campaign contributions-- We have you, our pro-Internet community. Together, we are stronger. Your human-sized monthly contribution is the most powerful way to help OpenMedia protect our digital future. We can do this but we need your help now to move forward.
Thank you for all that you’ve done and will do,
Steve, on behalf of your OpenMedia.ca team
P.S. We all have a choice. Stand up to protect and expand our digital rights, or sit down and accept what Big Media lobbyists, greedy Big Telecom, and secret spies have in store for us. Will you let them win? Stand with us as a monthly ally today.

Footnotes
[1] “Five key questions – and answers – about the leaked TPP text.” Source: Washington Post
[2] “New CRTC wireless rules ban contract break fees after 2 years.” Source: CBC News
[3] “Big Telecom against Canada.” Source: OpenMedia.ca
[4] “Tories bully Canadians into accepting Internet surveillance bill.” Source: National Post

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