{"id":442,"date":"2008-09-28T16:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-28T16:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=442"},"modified":"2017-01-24T22:03:28","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T03:03:28","slug":"ndp-sets-out-telecom-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=442","title":{"rendered":"NDP sets out telecom policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndp.ca\/page\/6984\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/4\/43\/Orange_NDP_logo_English.svg\/1000px-Orange_NDP_logo_English.svg.png\" alt=\"NDP\" width=\"200\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Last week, I started to <a href=\"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=444\">review the party platforms<\/a>, looking at the official positions being set forth in Canada&#8217;s upcoming elections. On Sunday, the New Democratic Party set out its platform [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndp.ca\/xfer\/campaign2008\/Platform_2008_EN.pdf\">pdf<\/a>] and telecom policy plays a more prominent role than we saw from the Liberals or Green Party last week.<\/p>\n<p>Like the Greens and Liberals, the NDP are promising to introduce new legislation &#8220;to prevent the publication or proliferation of child sexual abuse content on the Internet.&#8221; The NDP has joined the Green Party in promising to regulate the internet. The NDP go further than simply looking at regulating traffic; they plan to regulate prices as well.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-size: 85%; color: #666666; text-align: justify;\"><p>Implement \u201cnet neutrality\u201d to protect everyday Canadians\u2019 right to freely access the internet content of their choice at a flat rate and with clear and transparent rules. We will end price gouging and \u201cnet throttling\u201d, preventing a two-tiered internet in Canada.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The NDP are the first party to mention plans to improve access to broadband internet:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-size: 85%; color: #666666; text-align: justify;\"><p>Invest in a pan-Canadian broadband strategy to bring high-speed internet to more communities in Canada.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The NDP also plan to combat identity theft, control online computer fraud, including spamming and \u201cphishing,\u201d working to implement new measures to fight cyber-crime. The party also addresses new media with a promise to strengthen the delivery of new internet-based media services from CBC and Radio Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The NDP, through such members as MP Charlie Angus, has been active in raising the awareness of telecom issues in the most recent session of Parliament. Although I often disagree with their positions, I admire the focus in the coverage of telecommunications issues as evidenced in their platform document.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I started to review the party platforms, looking at the official positions being set forth in Canada&#8217;s upcoming elections. On Sunday, the New Democratic Party set out its platform [pdf] and telecom policy plays a more prominent role than we saw from the Liberals or Green Party last week. Like the Greens and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=442\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NDP sets out telecom policy<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NDP sets out telecom policy &#8226; Telecom Trends<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Last week, I started to review the party platforms, looking at the official positions being set forth in Canada&#039;s upcoming elections. 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