I love him so much, I just might have to vote Conservative next election.

I heard Clement on the radio yesterday, making exactly the right noises.

Canada minister says Internet billing ruling flawed

… A Canadian regulatory ruling that effectively stops small Internet providers from offering unlimited downloading must be revised, Industry Minister Tony Clement said on the social networking site Twitter.

“True. CRTC must go back to the drawing board,”

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Prime Minister Harper dropped the hammer on the CRTC via Twitter, too.

The people I trust on the internet are Michael Geist, Jeff Jarvis and Cory Doctorow. (2 of them Canadian).

They’ll like the stand made by Clement.

Here’s what Cory Doctorow had to say Feb. 2nd, before the elected masters stomped all over the CRTC ruling:

Welcome to the Canadian Internet, where extreme concentration in telecoms and a weak, lame regulator have given rise to a nation where your Internet access is metered in small, ungenerous dribs, and where ranging too far afield during your network use results in your ISP breaking into your browsing session to tell you that you’re close to being cut off from the net. …

Boing Boing – Welcome to the Canadian Internet, now stop using it

Other politicians are coming ’round to the ephiphany that standing up for the voters is a WINNER of an issue.

Jeff Jarvis:

In her second major speech on internet freedom, I’m delighted that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stood for the freedom to connect and recognizes the internet as a public space …

Clinton and the freedom to connect

She vowed Tuesday to invest $25 million for developers to build tools that will let online dissidents get around “thugs, hackers and censors.”

Just How Open Is Your Internet? [INFOGRAPHICS]

I know what you’re thinking. We’re going to drive TELUS, Bell and Rogers out of business in Canada !!

I hope so.

Some leaner, more honest competitors will rise to take their place.

If there’s a demand for internet, companies will fill that need.