Information & Ethics committee  I said earlier that I am in favour of the statutory law, for the reasons I suggested earlier. I share exactly the same concerns you do. Canada needs to take a careful look at the United States and learn from some of the errors. The inequality problems in the United States are rea

Information & Ethics committee  Sure. I'm open to my national duty. By the way, when are you guys going to hold a hearing on the NHL and the Olympics? I want to know about that.

Information & Ethics committee  That's what I'm upset about. I have an editorial in today's New York Times asking the Canadian Parliament to allow Canadian athletes to play if they want to, and proposing a law for the Canadian Parliament. I know that's aside from net neutrality, but it's an issue that concer

Information & Ethics committee  Can I make one quick closing statement?

Information & Ethics committee  Three-down football— I do encourage you all to read that. I really enjoyed this experience. It's a pleasure and I am open to coming to Ottawa. I would like to engage on these issues from the Canadian perspective. I really enjoyed this. I appreciate the tenor and intelligence and

Information & Ethics committee  I think in the United States there has been an impressive revival of antitrust thinking. I don't know if this has reached Canada. I think the pressure and the drumbeat to do something, to take seriously the market power expressed in some of the ways you described, has definitely

Information & Ethics committee  Assuming that this new Trump administration policy goes through, they could block any website they wanted to. It gives them the power that the Chinese government has over speech, frankly. If you ever spend time in China, you'll notice that the Internet's very different. You can't

Information & Ethics committee  It's the elimination of net neutrality, of the rule that said no blocking. In other words, the old rule said that when a customer asked for something, you had to deliver it; there was no blocking of websites, IP addresses, or anything like that. I worked in the industry. It's

Information & Ethics committee  No.

Information & Ethics committee  I think everyone has some kind of no blocking rule. I'm not 100% sure, but no. It's a big step backwards for the United States, which used to be in the forefront of these policies.

Information & Ethics committee  I think that most apps or start-ups are still trying to reach a North American market. There might be some who decide, “Okay, we can get our start in the Canadian market; maybe that's a good place to get started.” I notice that a lot of start-ups come from Scandinavia, and they s

Information & Ethics committee  Let me explain what I think the challenge would be. The American telecommunication law also has non-discrimination provisions. If you've read it as well, you'd say that would seem to bar any blocking or things like that. What the current FCC has done is to say, well, those are gr

Information & Ethics committee  Right.

Information & Ethics committee  It's a very good question. Can I say one thing on your previous comment before I get away from it?

Information & Ethics committee  I think the reason to do it by means of legislation in Canada is not that you don't cover it, but that someone or a future CRTC would say, “This is all fine, but broadband is not telecommunications”. Do you see what I'm saying? That was the approach taken in the United States, to