Information & Ethics committee  I think having strong net neutrality rules in Canada will give a clear message to the application space that you will have a safe haven here, if I can use that term, in terms of being treated fairly by your Internet service providers. If the jurisdictions are not that friendly, I

Information & Ethics committee  Not within Canada. ISPs here compete against each other. They don't compete with the ISPs in the U.S., so I don't see that dynamic playing out in that model. We have rules in place that should enable an innovative marketplace. We have connections with content delivery networks di

Information & Ethics committee  Our mandate, as spelled out in the Telecommunications Act, is really about the transmission and the service providers that provide that transmission. As I mentioned earlier, through the power we have in section 36, nobody can block or influence the content without our approval. W

Information & Ethics committee  In the case of any privacy issues, as I mentioned, we have set up rules that they can't use any of their traffic management practices from a privacy perspective. In terms of information flowing outside of the country, we don't have any rules that limit that. We don't get involved

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, absolutely. There are some sets of common issues that are across borders and global in nature, and there are annual regulatory forums where regulators get together and discuss those issues. We also meet one on one with our different counterparts in other countries.

Information & Ethics committee  No.

Information & Ethics committee  Not within our jurisdiction. We obviously implement what's in the Telecommunications Act, and the scope there regulates what's in Canada only.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. If you go back to the early days, some of the earlier issues were about the phone companies wanting to block voice-over-Internet protocol applications to protect their voice market. There are some cases of that occurring, but it would be clearly offside of our rules right no

Information & Ethics committee  When we had the differential pricing proceeding, the focus for many of the service providers was that they needed the ability to differentiate their products and make market share. There wasn't a lot of discussion on investment, but clearly, we've heard before as well that we nee

Information & Ethics committee  We don't restrict innovation, even in the application space. You can offer your own applications. We just say you can't give preference to your applications for the data by either giving it at a higher speed or not counting it toward the data the same as other applications. We fo

Information & Ethics committee  That's correct.

Information & Ethics committee  I think it is already there. I mentioned section 36 and section 27(2) to you earlier in terms of unjust discrimination and undue preference. Really the foundation is common carriage, and those concepts are there. As I mentioned, they have stood the test of time. It's very much

Information & Ethics committee  We are strong proponents of net neutrality. That's how we characterize ours. We still are not blocking or ex ante. They're called ex ante regulations. We have prescriptive rules that block certain treatment. We allow it to a certain level, but we give guidelines for where we thin

Information & Ethics committee  Focusing on net neutrality itself, we can't control what other jurisdictions do on that, but it is a global concern. Different jurisdictions have taken different approaches. With changes in the U.S., there obviously might be impacts on the application space and which applicatio

Information & Ethics committee  That's correct.