Editing Jim Prentice (section)

===Net neutrality===
While serving as a Federal Cabinet minister, Prentice received criticism that he was sidestepping the issue of Canada's [[net neutrality]] laws by not providing clear answers regarding the government's position on [[bandwidth throttling|internet throttling]] practices by national Internet Service Providers (ISPs).<ref name="Globe">{{cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080402.internet03/BNStory/Technology/home|title=Prentice mum on ISP throttling debate|publisher=The Globe and Mail|access-date=2008-06-09|location=Toronto|first=Matt|last=Hartley|date=April 2, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516050801/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080402.internet03/BNStory/Technology/home|archive-date=May 16, 2008|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref> [[New Democratic Party]] MP [[Charlie Angus]] raised the issue to Prentice in the House of Commons and said the government's "hands off" approach was bad for Canadian innovation.<ref name="Globe"/>  Prentice said that the issue is being appropriately handled by the Federal government agency the [[Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission]] (CRTC), which invited the general public to an open debate on net neutrality.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/crtc-opens-net-neutrality-debate-to-public-1.696539|title=CRTC opens net neutrality debate to public|work=CBC News|access-date=2008-06-09 | date=May 15, 2008}}</ref>