Canadian Net.Isolation in Progress?

Jesse Brown just posted a note about the cumulative effect of several decisions by governments and corporations on the Canadian net-using public. He closes it by raising several questions of interest to me and to anyone looking to stay in touch with Canadians from anywhere else on the planet as well as the Canadian public.

(Alternative, you can read it here instead. There's more comments already posted at the Search Engine edition of the blog posting already.

Scared? Or Not Scared?

And while I'm on the subject, might this item have anything useful to do with the other above-linked stuff?