Canadian NDP Leader Praises P2P Communities 169
newtley writes "The New Democrats' Jack Layton has become the first leader of a major Canadian political party to acknowledge the importance of the Internet during a federal election. He's using YouTube to carry his message specifically to the online community, launching it on P2Pnet. 'We don't want to see hidden fees and gouging and service slow-downs all in the interests of promoting the objectives of certain large corporations,' Layton says."
Other party members have also spoken out against increased internet regulation. We've been following the Canadian net neutrality debate for quite some time.
Re:Bravo (Score:2, Interesting)
I'm likely voting NDP not because I want them to form a government, but because I want them to be the opposition.
The opposition is there to hold the government accountable for its actions, and sadly, the Liberals have done a terrible job of that lately.
Mandatory internet filtering (was Re:Wrong Tag) (Score:1, Interesting)
The trap is mandatory internet filtering [www.ndp.ca] (see the last paragraph in section 1):
Generally, countries implement this by using a blacklist which:
Re:Wrong Tag (Score:3, Interesting)
$11 Billion divided among 1 Million people is more like $11,000 per person.
The example he is using is for the debt created in one province by a provincial political party. The equivalent of the debt of a state in the U.S. - is it really common in the U.S. to see state debt at $11,000/person?
The left of center governments in Canada typically create huge debt while the right of center governments create smaller debt. The previous left of center federal government (known as the "Liberals") ran up a huge debt - they after heavy pressure from international financial entities and from the Canadian people they paid alot of it off. Not by fiscal discipline but rather by raising taxes and off-loading costs to provincial governments - not by cutting program spending. The current federal government (known as the "Conservatives") actually cut spending, lowered taxes to people and business and paid off a significant portion of the national debt.
It's been a similar story at the provincial level.
Populist measures of NDP (Score:2, Interesting)
The NDP is pretty tech savvy usually. They have two other platform points that are interesting, although populist:
Disclaimer: I am not an NDP supporter, I am actually a card carrying liberal. I just like these policies.