Scrap the CRTC ?
A group of misguided individuals is calling for the dismantling of the CRTC after a series of decisions that they say are unfavorable to competition.
Duh? In early 2007, then minister of industry Maxime Bernier, in an unprecedented move, overruled the CRTC and issued a special policy directive that effectively tied it’s hands with regard to promoting competition. (just Google “Bernier, Maxime crtc policy directive”) Shortly afterward the chair of the CRTC stepped down and was replaced. BTW, this wasn’t the first or last time the Conservatives fired the heads of supposedly “arms length” government agencies for doing their jobs.
We can only imagine that since then, the CRTC employees know that if they issue any rulings that go against big business there will likely be retrobution.
If these people had a clue they would be demanding that the Conservative Government of Canada be scrapped, not the CRTC.
