SHOE ON THE OTHER FOOT:
This is a message for every Canadian Member of Parliament: IF you are prepared to be cavalier about the right to privacy of Canadians, IF you are considering advocating "driftnet" surveillance/filtering laws which arbitrarily permit predator governments to stalk the entire citizenry (which in turn may not re-elect you!), & IF you feel inclined to vote in favour of any bill which legitimises the already existing technology & authorises Echelon style invasion of Canadian privacy & surveillance of Canadian internet activity ........ then you must also vote for an amendment to this proposed bill which would immediately mandate a legal requirement that all so inclined MPs be made to remove all doors from their own homes, -all of them- the front door, all bedroom doors, all bathroom doors. Perhaps that might make you feel a tad more empathic regarding callous abuse of power regarding any bill which proposed the violation of the rights of others who elected you?

It really took me about 5 minutes to understand the concerns Mia Nony. If a bill is passed to allow the free flow of communication between everyone there will be a need to regulate the kind of data which is harvested from users. Many people install software on their own computers which allows other companies to harvest user interaction and behaviors. This Net Neutrality concept seems to be focused on how things are being billed or profited from. Larger companies which can give services away for free while snooping on a consumers habits, and then reselling those consumer habits to others will then be the privacy issue.

In the information age. Can you profit from information? Then the free exchange of it should be scrutinized. I will trade you some beads for that land over there.

The concept of net neutrality is to treat all the data packets the same. Be it Bell serving their Customers packets off a peer to peer network OR bell serving a mobile client their pay per view mobile television, all the packets, all the data is sent with the same priority. Just because you arn't paying 400$/month doesn't mean your internet should be throttled.. the internet is about communication on the global level.