Information & Ethics committee  I'll start, but without commenting on the particular sites that you mentioned.

Information & Ethics committee  All of us, as ISPs, as I said earlier, are content agnostic, so the content that travels over our network is not censored, monitored, or controlled by us. We're simply delivering the connectivity from point A to point B. Obviously, if there were a regulatory order or a court orde

Information & Ethics committee  We haven't received specific net neutrality complaints, with one exception, and it's an exception I mentioned earlier, the Bell Mobile TV offering. Some of the Internet activists, as Ms. Dinsmore calls them, complained to the CRTC, and ultimately the CRTC ruled against us. That

Information & Ethics committee  That's what this proposal is all about. Rather than going to the CRTC on a one-off basis, we thought a holistic proposal from a broad-based group of stakeholders would give the CRTC the best opportunity to have a look at the implications and consider it a broad basis. That's exac

Information & Ethics committee  As I said, I think the coalition's view is that this type of broad proposal makes the most sense. You create an independent agency that has some expertise.

Information & Ethics committee  Could I take a stab at that? I think it's important to point out that under the Telecommunications Act there's a specific provision in section 36 whereby Parliament has empowered the CRTC, as the expert telecommunications regulator, to make determination to authorize ISPs to in

Information & Ethics committee  Well, we hope we don't get to the next step that you've asked me about. We think that the FairPlay proposal, given the existing range of remedies that are available, is an important addition, because it's practical, it's effective, and it lets us reach beyond our borders to find

Information & Ethics committee  When we're acting as an ISP—we're an integrated company, so we have the media business and the ISP business—we're content agnostic. We deliver the content that rides on our network and provide it to consumers with the highest-quality networks and the best user experience possible

Information & Ethics committee  With regard to the FairPlay proposal, I know you and others have referred to it as the “Bell proposal”, but it's not. That doesn't reflect the broad constituency of members of the various participants in the cultural community that have participated actively: actors' unions, guil

Information & Ethics committee  From a Bell perspective, Ms. Dinsmore was correct. I think if there is an impact, the impact will be on Canadian entities using the U.S. pipeline, for lack of a better phrase. They may experience an increased cost of doing business as a result of the ability of ISPs south of the

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Honourable committee members, my name is Robert Malcolmson. I am the senior vice-president of regulatory affairs at BCE. Thank you for your invitation to provide Bell's views on the topic of net neutrality. Bell is Canada's largest communications compan