You may remember a short while ago the concerns about the metered Internet experiment in Canada, courtesy of the government.   
 
Usage-Based Billing may be leaving as quickly as it came.   The Canadian Radio-Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) approved usage-based billing for Bell Canada but a senior Conservative government official said Wednesday that the CRTC could reconsider or it would be done for them.

Like the FCC in the US, it seems the Canadian version is obsessed with ruining one of the few things still working in the economy.   Hopefully the US will also put the FCC in its place.   As in Canada, conservatives are leading the charge to keep poor people from being exploited by a government claiming to care about them.