Democracies are only constructive when citizens provide feedback to their leaders and when the leaders listen to, acknowledge, and utilize statements of appreciation, suggestion and criticism to effect better service to those whom they have accepted responsibility for.

NOTE: If you do NOT have a computer and/or Internet access.

Free access to computers and the Internet can be found at many Public Libraries in Ontario as well as at Employment Resource Centres and some other public centres. The above e-mail links will likely NOT work on these machines.

Originally, many of the public access systems did allow for public use of E-mail. This was abused by individuals using the public systems to send abusive or crude messages, or, to use for spamming. The address of the system is sent along with the message for identification purposes. To retain their Internet connection, public providers have usually had to disable the option of sending E-mail directly from their systems.

A FREE E-mail account can be set up by anyone with one or more of a number of providers, including these:

• http://www.yahoo.com/
  Anyone can read your mail here easily because of a 2-step signoff.

• http://www.hotmail.com/

• http://www.excite.com/
  Very popular and function-loaded sites can be slow.
  Mailexcite only allows 25 identical message E-mails per day per account.

• http://www.bigfoot.com/
  This one and others have and continue to upgrade their features.

• and others.