
INDEPENDENT MEDIA
by David Christopher
This new tax will make Internet access even more expensive, despite the fact Canadians already pay among the highest prices in the industrialized world for this basic necessity. Fees are already so high that 44 percent of low-income households do not have a home Internet connection, leaving vast numbers of Canadians excluded from our digital endowment.
The ISP tax is the brainchild of Canada’s large publishers and broadcasters who have been using government consultations to ascertain how to fund Canadian content to push their plan. In a nutshell, they want to burden Canadian Internet users with an ISP tax in order to subsidize industries struggling to adapt to the digital age.