Net neutrality, for those who don't know, is a policy which forces Internet providers to treat all traffic equally. That is, they can't slow down Netflix because it competes with their cable service, and they can't cut a deal with Microsoft to give priority to Bing searches over Google's. This is important to maintaining an open Internet. Some will try to tell you that the free market will enforce net neutrality. Some are also short-sighted and forget that Internet is, at best, served by a duopoly. Your ISP wants all the money it can get, and it will squeeze every dime out of you because you have nowhere to turn.
ISPs are what forced Netflix to increase its price recently; they refused to cooperate with Netflix's CDN (which Netflix offered for free), and instead, Netflix is
paying Verizon and Comcast to peer. Netflix might be able to afford this, but the
next Netflix is a poor company who can't take on this cost.
Ah the US is darn cheap to Canada. And your phone charges for data usage is about 1/3 to 1/2 the cost.
Your healthcare is also about half the cost per capita.
But yeah, somehow Canadian telecom is worse than it is in the US. I chalk that up to having fewer cell carriers, in part.