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In my 10 years on that Commission I saw 20 commissioners come and go. Two might have fit the description of former Telecom executive. It’s actually pretty useful to have people with Telecom experience when regulating $60 billion worth of Telecom. The lack of experience the current commission had on that score may have contributed to Thursday’s decision to reduce competition and increase Internet prices

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I believe the election rule created by the Liberal Government of Canada ran into some legal problems as it was deemed unconstitutional. So to move around the Constitution, which they do on a regular bases, they need to regulate the only space left for people to speak freely, the internet. They must quash those "conspiracy theory's " like the Reset that Trudeau spoke to the UN about and the promotion of the WEF where the journalist, turned Finance Minister (credentials be dammed) Chrystia Freeland is a member of the board of Trustees. There only hope of silencing any such talk or any words they do not want heard is to control all content. It is why they are pushing it through regardless of how many oppose it. The CRTC is but an appendage of the Government in power. What they deem as untrue so shall the CRTC. After all the CRTC members are appointed by whom?

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As an Enemy of Canadian Broadcasting, I find any regulations that promote or discourage content beyong the obvious blocks on extreme content such as child porn, live-streaming of terrorist acts and intellectual property theft to be outrageous. The Canadian cultural and media sectors need to compete on merit.

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Personally I don't care about this issue which seems to have incensed various journalists and social media types. Clamping down on things like vicious hate commentary, dangerous medical information and paramilitary recruitment would seem to be a good thing. CanCon has also proven to be effective in building our culture.

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You should care as it might be your speech cancelled whether you believe it to be true or not. The internet is societies mode of information today, not the mainstream media. By stopping some one you disagree with from speaking on line is denying them the right to communicate. It’s used by business, journalists and almost everyone on this earth. What exactly do you consider to be Canadian culture? Last Trudeau said we were a post national state with no normal, no mainstream. Trudeau just approved Quebec being a nation of its own with its own culture and language. So you can no longer call their culture Canadian because it is French culture and belongs solely to them as it is with the indigenous people.Many of us are deemed white supremists as we come from a colonial back ground. Our Government is based on colonial parliament as are our courts, so they all must be removed as our institutions are full of systemic racism. So exactly what Canadian culture is it you, the Liberals, or any of the colonial parties and the colonial appendages of government, like the CRTC care to promote. Last I heard they were burning it all down.

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