The Globe and Mail reports in its Saturday edition that now that the United States has rolled back the Internet protections it put in place two years ago by Barack Obama, the big question is what the repeal of Net neutrality means to the public. An Associated Press dispatch to The Globe says that in the short term, the answer is simple: not much. However, over time, your ability to watch what you want to watch on-line and to use the apps that you prefer could start to change. If you live in the United States, you could wake one day to learn that your broadband provider is having a tiff with Amazon, and has slowed down its shopping site in order to extract business concessions. Canada, however, has firm protections for Net neutrality in place and political support for the rules is strong. "Net neutrality is one of the critical issues of our times, much like freedom of the press and freedom of expression before it," Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains said last week. "That's why our government has a strong Net neutrality framework in place." Earlier this year, the CRTC issued a blanket policy that bars Internet and wireless providers from offering free or discounted data for only certain types of content.