Information & Ethics committee  No, and the agency that Bell has in mind to help develop the block list wouldn't even be government. It would be largely comprised of the private sector. We already have a system in place for child pornography, which has always, I think, been seen as different from all the other

Information & Ethics committee  Sure. There have been, as I mentioned, a couple of examples where privacy has been directly implicated through net neutrality. One would be where a service that might provide better privacy might either not emerge or might struggle to work effectively. The example that I gave in

Information & Ethics committee  To start, yes, it is the traditional ISPs, the carriers, that we're talking about in terms of concerns about violations around net neutrality. What they became concerned with a number of years ago was that they were seeing much of the value in these networks being accrued by oth

Information & Ethics committee  The online privacy issues, of course, extend even beyond net neutrality. Net neutrality can be a factor and an assistance in potential misuse of their information in terms of, let's say, the deep packet inspection example that I provided, where you had providers who were trying t

Information & Ethics committee  They haven't been ordered to issue a telecom transparency report, although I think there is an argument to be made under PIPEDA that it should be a requirement under the accountability principle.

Information & Ethics committee  This is Bell. A number of years ago, most of the large providers began issuing transparency reports. The big Internet companies do the same. Bell has been the lone big holdout in Canada.

Information & Ethics committee  You'd have to ask them.

Information & Ethics committee  That is, of course, the same company that I just described that's putting forward the proposal for website blocking.

Information & Ethics committee  They seem to be less concerned sometimes. At least from my perspective as a consumer and someone who follows this, they sometimes seem somewhat less concerned about their reputation, at least around issues such as privacy.

Information & Ethics committee  We do.

Information & Ethics committee  It is. The story actually behind that is that we didn't at first. As it happens, I launched an access to information request with the CRTC a year or two after the process had been taking place to identify what on earth was happening. What I got out of that was that large number

Information & Ethics committee  I got that information in the first instance through access to information. Now the CRTC proactively, on a quarterly basis, discloses. They don't disclose the details. They disclose how many complaints they got and how many complaints remain open.

Information & Ethics committee  I am not aware of a reason why the CRTC couldn't be doing it right now.

Information & Ethics committee  No, nothing requires them.

Information & Ethics committee  I think obviously they made, I guess, a policy decision that the appropriate approach was to respond to complaints.