Information & Ethics committee  Have you ever heard of anything in the United States Congress being easily achieved? There's a movement right now to undo the Trump administration proposal immediately. It has 50 votes in the Senate. It's going to be voted on. Unfortunately, it would have to be signed. It would h

Information & Ethics committee  No. It's actually that they're compelled by the statute to adopt some.... The nature of the broadband service is such that they have to classify it under the statute in a certain way. I guess that's the way I'm suggesting.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, sure.

Information & Ethics committee  The one thing I would imagine is that you will have the Canadian industry also demanding parity. That's a small thing. I don't think that would be good for consumers for reasons I've suggested or for the country, but it may be something that is demanded. I think that's maybe th

Information & Ethics committee  I think it's very important to reaffirm Canada's commitment to net neutrality. I could think about it. I'm not sure if there's something at this point that I would specifically recommend, other than reaffirming the commitment, which I think the Prime Minister has done, if I'm not

Information & Ethics committee  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

Information & Ethics committee  I think there isn't a lot of mystery as to who's interested in killing net neutrality in the United States. It is not the Republican Party, but it is very narrowly the phone and cable companies. I think that even though they've prospered under net neutrality, they have a series o

Information & Ethics committee  It's not the U.S. government. It's one agency of the U.S. government with a chair who is a former employee of the phone companies, who has long agreed with them that they should get rid of net neutrality. I don't think it's government as a whole. I don't think even the White Hous

Information & Ethics committee  Okay, maybe I should make this clear. It's not a bill, not a statute. It's a regulation. The agency has the independent power—I think the CRTC has this power as well—to pass rules without Congress. The process will go like this. They've written the rule, they voted on it, and t

Information & Ethics committee  It will be based on two things. One is the idea that the agency, the FCC, doesn't have the authority to pass the law this way. The second is that their changing of the rule that was successful, without giving reasons for doing so, is arbitrary and capricious. The rule in Americ

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you. I'd first like to thank the committee for inviting me. It's an honour. As you may know, I grew up in Toronto and I used to attend question period on vacations. I'm also a Canadian citizen, so I'm very interested in this issue. I want to apologize for not being there i