Joe Volpe’s Young Supporters
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It seems Joe Volpe’s youth wing may extend to children of foreigners as well. After revelations that 11 year old twins of Apotex Inc. vice-president Allen Shechtman donated big sums of cash to Volpe’s bid for the Liberal leadership, somebody started to ask questions about who the other kids backing Volpe were. This apparently led to the cracking of an international child-support ring for Volpe. According to CIRA:
June 2, 2006
CIRA RESPONDS TO HYPE ABOUT YOUTHFORVOLPE.CA
How can a website be shut down?Ottawa, June 2, 2006 – The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) issued a statement today in which it clarifies erroneous information referencing its part in shutting down youthforvolpe.ca.
Recent events related through the media indicated that Liberal MP Joe Volpe’s staff had requested CIRA suspend youthforvolpe.ca.
Bernard Turcotte, CIRA’s President and CEO states “We have no record of any contact between CIRA and Mr. Volpe or his staff. Furthermore, CIRA does not deal with website content. This is and continues to be a guiding principle underlying our operations.”
He added that no CIRA staff undertook any actions with respect to youthforvolpe.ca but rather that the Registrar for the domain name requested, via CIRA’s automated systems, that the domain name be cancelled, as is allowed under the rules. The registrar advised CIRA that it made this request because its registrant would not provide valid Canadian contact information.
Under CIRA’s registrar rules, the registrar had to act once it confirmed it could not obtain valid Canadian contact information from the registrant.
This is in no way an exceptional case, CIRA and CIRA Certified Registrars cancel domain name registrations on a regular basis for these exact reasons.
What are these foreign kids up to? Is Joe Volpe wearing an adult suit? That he is in fact a child in disguise might explain his lack of political sense.
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