NDP introduces net neutrality bill

OTTAWA – The controversial issue of ‘net neutrality’ has made it on to the political agenda, after NDP digital affairs critic Charlie Angus tabled Bill C-398 on Friday. Designed to prevent telecom service providers from engaging “in network management practices that favour, degrade or prioritize any content, application or service transmitted over a broadband network based on its source, ownership, destination or type”, Angus said that the bill will ensure that the future development of the Internet “is not impeded by unfair throttling or interference by telecom giants”.“The telecom giants didn’t invent the internet,” Angus said in a statement. “They...