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Well the government/crtc had insured competition by mandating that larger telecom companies must allow smaller isps access to their publicly funded networks. Unfortunately with this decision, and with recent past decisions, the CRTC has essentially mandated that smaller isps cannot offer faster speeds, higher bandwidth caps, or cheaper (reasonable) overage charged. In the long run I think it’s a good goal to open the Canadian internet market, but in the short term the government should step in and stop this price gouging by reversing the CRTC decision. To put into prospective of just how much gouging is going on, Shaw and bell are charging 2 bucks per gig of download, and it costs them maybe half a cent to actually transfer that data (data transfer cost includes cost to setup and maintain the network), that means their charging neatly 400 times the actual cost. Even a reasonable rate of say 10 cents per gig is still a mark-up of 20 times the actual cost. Another long term plan should be to create a public network. The internet is the future of commerce and information exchange, a neutral network would insure innovation, and cost effective access to the internet.

It'll be enough when the policy has been changed.

Rocky Gaudrault, CEO of techsavvy has recently spoken out on the issue of Useage Based Billing Read what he has to say here http://opinion.financialpost.com/2011/02/07/internet-usage-debate-the-real-myths/ As some of you may know the CRTC recently approved Bell Canada's request to implement what Bell calls 'Usage based billing'. Under the old system consumer and corporate resellers paid for access to a larger company’s network, such as in Ontario where a company like Techsavvy would pay Bell a fee for access to their network. With this fee paid the payee would get unfettered access to this network; however companies still held the right to disconnect those who abused their connection and caused network congestion. Under the new system a company like Bell would still charge the consumer or the coporate reseller the same flat rate for access, and then tack on an additional fee for every piece of data downloaded. Now I hear some of you saying 'that seems perfectly fair' Canadians already pay some of the highest costs in the world for broadband access, in fact on an international basis we rank nearly dead last in terms of costs per megabyte: http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/1152/consmq.png That’s right we pay 2.6 times more than our American neighbours for the same service. With these new fees which will be imposed on Canadians that gap will likely grow even larger. Why is it that Canadians pay more? I couldn't tell you, as the actual costs to maintaining a network in Canada and in the States is nearly identical. What I can tell you is Canadian telecom companies regularly post far larger profits than their American counterparts. If these companies already are earning record profits why are these fee's necessary? Big Telecom companies sell access to cable and satellite TV as well as the internet. With services like Google TV, and Netflix entering the Canadian market companies like Bell are seeing their cable and satellite subscription rates plummet. Rather than adapting to the changing times they've decided to instead try and make their opponent’s product ludicrously expensive. For instance Shaw is charging $2 per gigabyte, if you go over their low monthly cap, So that 4gb Netflix video is now costs you 8 bucks to watch. Many saw this conflict of interest coming years in advance, but the CRTC has so far buried their head in the sand. But surely competition amounst internet providers will ensure that rates dont skyrocket! These new fees will lead to a stiffling of e-innovation in Canada, all while insurring higher costs to the consumer. Luckily as a Canadian you can voice your concern over this matter, call or write you local MP, or even sign an online petition. http://openmedia.ca/meter Thus far the NDP and the Liberal have come out in opposition to this new policy, while the Conservative have said they are reviewing the decision. Tony Clement has recently come out saying that if the CRTC does not back down, he will reverse this decision himself. Crisis averted, maybe...

After the hack job the media did on Dion the idea that the media is liberal is laughable.

I forgot the /sarcasm

I just do see how the military will get by without cutting edge stealth fighters... What if them ruskie pinkos come over the pole?

Well that's a sad list of people killed for pathetic ideals.

Show me one innocent man put to death who was exonerated.

I'm confused why people want it back. Its been shown to be expensive and a terrible deterrent in any country with a decent justice system. So someone please tell me what is the fucking point of dredging up this debate. and this isn't even addressing the possibilities innocent being convicted.

Slashing taxs while slashing programs wouldn't go down well with many Canadians.

'Gave' and 'pissed away on an event no one in Toronto wanted' are two diffrent things.

Whats wrong with showing how wasteful the Cons are? Seems getting rid of a spend like a drunken sailor politician like harper would be in the best interest of all Canadians.

Debt, what debt? Harper said we would have a surplus. You must stop listeing to these liberal sypathizers.

D Feels like Canada is slipping backwards.

I fail to see any difference between these ads and their previous counterparts. Seems august just wants his own soapbox.

No their not rhinos, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinoceros_Party_of_Canada_%281963%E2%80%931993%29 The rhinos were probably the only honest party Canada's ever had.

And not a single issue was adressed. Good to see the Cons focus is on this and not their record debt.

I don't see how that changes anything, I still think we shouldn't be letting extremist into the country. and when it comes down to it most of these groups grievances can be traced back to the America's idiot 'foreign piolicy' over the last 70 years.

This is what happens when you lets members of radicals religions, in this case Islam, become citizens. Shall we give three cheers for the politically correct morons who opened of the floodgates to these types?

Seeing as number three will do nothing but make helthcare more expensive it ought to be removed from the table.

If they ignored the waiver its their fault for getting sued.

Anyone who hasn't figured this out yet is a moron.

As long as people vote for them they have a right to exist.

Funny, Freud never actually said that. Do try and do just a little bit of research before you open that hole of yours.

I know its cool that words have defined meanings! Even if some of us, ie: you, don't know what most of them are.