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Avoiding parl.gc.ca duplication of efforts.

Posted by Russell McOrmond-2 on Feb 16, 2006; 6:22pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/Avoiding-parl-gc-ca-duplication-of-efforts-tp270.html


   I notice that
http://webinfo.parl.gc.ca/MembersOfParliament/MainMPsCompleteList.aspx?TimePeriod=Current&Language=E 
now has the complete list of MPs with links to email addresses, etc.
It seems that the interim list pages were not being updated.


(Example for Peggy Nash)
http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/people/key/bio.asp?Language=E&query=18844&s=


   I am planning on writing some screen scraping scripts to extract this
information into a database.  It should be easy to automate as each
constituency page has an Elections Canada link that has the EDID, and
thus no manual cut-and-paste will be needed to index that information.

   If someone else is already doing this, then I won't bother.  I don't
have a timeline, but want to get the full list of email addresses into
digital-copyright.ca soon so that we can launch a "write a letter to
your MP" campaign.


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