Mr. Chairman, even though we have received a document on the CRTC's power to impose administrative monetary penalties, I still have trouble... Bill C-73 from the last Parliament, was a bill that died on the order paper. It read:
This enactment amends the Telecommunications Act to provide the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission with the authority to create and administer an administrative monetary penalty scheme for contravention of its decisions or of the Act. It also streamlines existing summary conviction provisions and raises the associated penalties, and enables the Commission to share confidential information with the Commissioner of Competition.
If the CRTC had this power, I don't even think that we would had to... The act exists, but does the CRTC have the power to penalize contraventions? It's the whole grey area that bothers me still. If this had been the case, we wouldn't have had to debate this bill during the last Parliament.