http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/Canadian-federal-information-keyed-on-Electoral-District-ID-EDID-tp188p190.html
Great work. I'll try to pitch in if I can make time.
>
> Greetings,
>
> I'm the webmaster for digital-copyright.ca , and I also have other
> clients (Example:
http://makepovertyhistory.ca ) which makes access to
> federal information such as the postal code database (noted at:
>
http://www.digital-copyright.ca/node/1607 ) and contact information for
> candidates (during the election) and MPs (between elections).
>
> Soon after the election I took the page at
>
http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/people/house/mpscur.asp?Language=E> and created a table of information by adding the electoral district ID
> number (cutting-and-pasting from a different page).
>
> I can now loop through the links and do a screen scrape to get email
> addresses as these pages include the "contact information" link. Those
> returning to parliament already have this information, and soon we'll
> see the information for the newly elected MPs as well.
>
>
> What I'm wondering is if there are people who would like to
> collaborate on this type of thing, avoiding duplications of effort.
> What I'm looking for is to have a place to put information that is keyed
> to the electoral district ID. I know of someone else who is working
> with SierraClub.ca who has went through and done the cutting-and-pasting
> of the MP names into separate firstname and lastname fields, which may
> also be useful to people.
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