I do see a long-term threat for a lot of reasons. I think I suggested this earlier. I'm concerned that if the carriers, the phone and cable companies, are successful at doing this in the United States, and if they start imposing taxes on all American content providers, including small non-profit sites and everything like that, they will push very hard for that to become the global norm, that this is the way things need to be because the United States is the home of the Internet and so forth.
As I think I suggested earlier, I'm also concerned that the opportunities for Canadian speakers to reach Americans will be threatened. Canadians are often interested in reaching an American audience. Look, I'm a Canadian reaching an American audience all the time, and I think the opportunities for Canadian speakers to reach Americans are threatened. It's not like it's cut off at the border. In a narrow sense, it's tough delivering content, but anytime Canadians interact with things that are American, they end up being affected by the change and the shape.
I see a future where, in the United States, there's a very strong effort to make everything that really survives on the Internet—that lives there—to be highly commercially successful. This is an important point that I didn't make in my opening remarks, which is that you see more and more power going towards the biggest Internet companies, ironically, Google, Facebook, and Amazon. To the degree that you're concerned about the market power of those companies in Canada...I don't know if that's a big concern. It's certainly a concern here. If you're concerned about the market verging on monopoly power—frankly monopoly power for many of them—and its effects on the Canadian economy, the loss of net neutrality in the United States makes those entities more powerful. That's something I think you need to be concerned about.
I've thought of one thing that's important. I think it's important that you speak to the competition authorities and ask them if this will create more barriers to entry. Will this create more barriers to entry, more market power for some of the biggest companies? Do we need to be concerned about this problem?