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Embracing an innovation agenda
Big telecom's monopolistic control over the Net is threatening to leave Canada with a last generation Internet. We have fallen behind many European and Asian countries in terms of Internet access, speed and cost, moving Canada from second to tenth place within the 30 OECD countries. Our broadband connection speeds have also fallen below the OECD average, and we rank 27th in terms of cost versus speed.
![Paul Boin](http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/thumbnail/category_pictures/Paul Boin-PhotoHS.jpg "Paul Boin is an assistant professor of communication studies (University of Windsor), and the Chair of the Graduate Program in Communication and Social Justice at the University of Windsor. He is also an investigative journalist (Real News Network, RNNnews.info) and a media democracy activist (www.mediademocracyday.org), and former editor/publisher of ECOLUTIONS Magazine. Paul's forthcoming book is entitled Media For the Public Mind: Creating a Democratic and
Informative News Media to be published in the Spring of 2008 by Fernwood Publishing. He has also written articles including "Truth in
Terror and in War", "Re-framing Our Global Predicament", "Confronting the Corporate Take-Over of the Internet", "New Media" (in Mediascapes with Scatamburlo-D’Annibale), and others.")