Information & Ethics committee  I think that ability to slow down does have an impact though, so I made reference, for example, to the very early case with deep packet inspection at the CRTC. At that point, a lot of people were using things like BitTorrent to access sometimes authorized content and sometimes un

Information & Ethics committee  Absolutely.

Information & Ethics committee  Providers are going to try to compete in a myriad different ways, and they do. Sometimes that involves bundling, and it's why, in the wireless space, some of the newest players have really struggled to establish the kind of market share that successive governments had hoped they

Information & Ethics committee  There are risks. I mentioned at least one that has already come up in the questions, which is that prospect of what happens when Canadian businesses try to compete in the U.S. market. At a consumer level, their direct interaction with their ISP should not face a non-net neutral

Information & Ethics committee  That's a great question. That is a shortcoming of our system. The system at the moment requires individuals to file complaints with the CRTC. Many people who find that services might be running slowly or are unable to access something often will not have the technical wherewithal

Information & Ethics committee  I don't think we're ever going to get to the point where the majority of Canadians are able to turn into their own geek squad, where they can figure out precisely why something is running slowly, nor should they be expected to. I think if we value net neutrality, and as mention

Information & Ethics committee  I would say a couple of things. First, a provision in the larger chapter is more realistic than you might think. The challenge will be whether or not it has any teeth. The digital trade chapter in NAFTA is, we are told, modelled on the TPP e-commerce chapter. They've renamed it

Information & Ethics committee  It was.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. That's an interesting point. To come back to the trade issue, certainly taking a look at what we've seen most recently, it's easy to be pessimistic for sure. I do think that the backlash we've seen in the United States and the support for net neutrality that still exists a

Information & Ethics committee  As these negotiations unfold, you never know. I think you've highlighted a really interesting issue that extends beyond just neutrality. That is the extent to which we do see digital policies potentially characterized or actually having the effect of a trade barrier. That same d

Information & Ethics committee  I don't think we can yet.

Information & Ethics committee  No.

Information & Ethics committee  There isn't a digital e-commerce chapter in CETA, for example. TPP was really the first to try to do this, although it is worth noting that the World Trade Organization discussions that are set to take place in Argentina next week include a focus on whether the WTO will become m

Information & Ethics committee  The fact that they are excluding some major digital civil liberties groups suggests it's pretty bad.