[CivicAccess-discuss] FreeFindMP Find Members of Parliament by Postal Code

[Russell McOrmond]

On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Tracey P. Lauriault wrote:

> the list - I will send the list to a contact who might be able to use these
> examples to argue toward making the postal code file free!

   I want to help that contact any way I can -- this is a file that should 
be easy to win, and yet is still an annoyance.

   I'm also curious if people know of a way to get contact/etc information 
for MPs and MPPs that is both free (libre and gratis) and doesn't involve 
screen scraping (which is questionably legal).  For digital-copyright.ca I 
have a script that scraps parl.gc.ca, but there may be something better 
(and that reminds me I need to run it -- I kept thinkng the government 
would fall and haven't kept it up-to-date).

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