Thank you, witnesses, for being here.
I'll start with Mr. Mitchell, but I would ask for this to go around.
Obviously the decision in the United States to abandon net neutrality has a significant impact on, I think, even government policy to spend resources to connect and how to connect. There is obviously going to be a change of behaviour and marketing access to people's information now that won't be based on just the net neutrality model. It can, quite frankly, be vulnerable now to a specific type of relationship that is different from what it's had in the past.
I don't expect you have an answer for it, but what does that do for public policy people like me, who believe in net neutrality but who are now faced with—especially here in Canada, because the pipelines and the effect also come from the United States—the defeat of some of the principles? This service has been characterized as being like highways, but the reality is we're now building toll roads to certain destinations.
If you have any comments about that, I'd be interested in hearing them, starting with the U.S. side and Mr. Mitchell, and then the Canadian after that.