This is music to my ears!
The Bloc Québécois is poised to table potentially controversial legislation giving Quebec the power to opt out of the national Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission and set up its own telecommunications regulator.
Hopefully the Bloc succeeds and leads the way to the eventual dissolution of the entire Commission.
Dave Hodson wrote:
I’m not sure this is a good thing?
The first part of the paragraph is indeed good news…
…table potentially controversial legislation giving Quebec the power to opt out of the national Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
Then they have to go and spoil a good idea with this…
…and set up its own telecommunications regulator.
Anything to get away from the CRTC is positive. However, to then try to set up a set of provincial level mini-CRTCs is just madness. Sort of like going from the frying pan and into the fire. More duplication, waste and confusion will arise as various provincial commissions try to do similarly useless but slightly different things than the federal commission, but with more confusion and waste than before! National organizations will have to make multiple applications for various permissions under different sets of local rules. But what a great make-work project for the lawyers.
Just get rid of it. Period.
Posted on 17-Apr-08 at 2:04 pm | Permalink
John wrote:
The CRTC needs to get called on its delegation of the content regulatory function to the CBSC.
It has been limiting speech for 20 year without a single review.
It is a body infested with Richard Warman’s rights industry pals.
Time to clean house, evacuate and efficiently burn it to the ground.
Posted on 17-Apr-08 at 2:10 pm | Permalink