Topic: Net Neutrality
Country: Canada
Delegate Name: Cameron Grogan
School: East Grand Rapids High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Canada position papers GLIMUN 2016 committees
The problems developing with the always growing internet poses a threat for all countries. Canada believes firmly that they should have a only few regulations and private branches of our government to monitor the ever growing internet and maintain net neutrality to the best our country can. Canada Also believes that a tax system should be set up in order to pay for this service.
Canada already has quite a few public, and private, organizations that have the authority to censor certain data on the internet in order to prevent its exposure to our common citizen. Canada has an obligation to its people to protect them. We believe that it is best for our country if we have access to a person's data if a threat seems to be apparent. So long as our government sets laws to protect our citizens rights and ensure that organizations such as; the Canadian Human Rights Commission, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, and the Canadian Association of Broadcasters do not violate a person's rights when exposes content on the internet. It is very important that we do look into our citizens content to reduce our large, if not largest in the world, amount of hate crime.
I believe the people within Canada should have to pay for this service. The government can not support a private government organization without the increase of taxation. With the general taxation of a Canadian citizen being 15% and the average income of a canadian being around 27,600 per individual and with Canada’s population being at 35.16 million if we simply raise per year the taxation by .003% and use that tax money to fund a private organization that organization would receive $436,687,200 dollars to work with a year. The organization shall be deemed the Canadian Internet Advisory Agency (CIAA) and shall be a part of the Canadian government. The small increase of 15.003% would on require Canadians to pay an extra $12.42 a year.
