Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Canada: Government Documents Suggest Tories Not Nervous About ISPs Interfering With Net

A Canadian Press article by Lee-Anne Goodman, via CBC.ca, reports that:

Internal documents suggest the Tory government is reluctant to impose consumer safeguards for the web because it wants to protect the competitive position of businesses that offer Internet access.

Documents obtained by The Canadian Press indicate that Industry Minister Maxime Bernier, who has previously declared a "consumer first" approach, is carefully heeding the arguments of large telecommunications companies like Videotron and Telus against so-called Net neutrality legislation.

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