Evidence of meeting #24 for Procedure and House Affairs in the 41st Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was crtc.
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Conservative
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Conservative
Tom Lukiwski Conservative Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre, SK
If I may, I'll just continue on and hopefully finalize the last thoughts on the line of questioning I've been pursuing.
There have been from time to time many candidates from different political parties who have been fined by the CRTC for various transgressions, going back again to the judgment call. Do you think it would be helpful to have a tighter set of determinants for the CRTC when examining cases in which there have been violations, or are you satisfied that the definitions provided to you in their current state are sufficient? In other words, would you like to see a little bit more guidance, or are you satisfied that what you have now ultimately will lead to proper decision-making?
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Senior General Counsel, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
We think the provisions of the proposed legislation are very good provisions that will certainly give us an ability to investigate the violations under this piece of legislation, which would be the failure to register notices.
Other than that, our role is to implement the policy that the government puts into place through its legislation. We're very happy to do so.
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Conservative
Tom Lukiwski Conservative Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre, SK
So you have no other suggestions for improvements from your perspective that you could offer this committee.
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Chief Compliance and Enforcement Officer, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
The current regime that it is under, the unsolicited telecommunications rules with regard to the penalties, would apply. So far it's been working very fine for us.
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Senior General Counsel, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
I think we could work with the legislation, if it's passed, and then we'll see how it works.
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Conservative
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The Chair Conservative Joe Preston
Great. I'd like to thank our witnesses for coming today and sharing with us views from the CRTC. We thank you for doing that.
Members, we will be back in this room tonight at seven o'clock.
The meeting is adjourned.
