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I agree with kropotkin's distinction between a public good and a right. I think public broadband is in the public's interest; as far as I'm concerned, that's sufficient to turn it into policy without entering the discourse of "rights." Although I take F55's point that access to government is a right--but of course access to government, even online, need not be provided by private internet access.
It just takes a government with forward-thinkers in the cabinet to make this happen. Unfortunately, there are no such folks in Harper's governing caucus.