First, we often praise the CRTC when they do good things, but I would say that CRTC has dropped the ball on CBC issues. The CRTC last licensed the CBC's various networks in January 2000, and in their cycle they're supposed to do a review of licences every seven years. We're now into the eleventh year since there has been any substantive review of the CBC. I think that betrays, on the part of successive leaders at the CRTC, a bias towards responding to the private sector. It's not appropriate that the CBC is acting today under licences that were granted on January 6 of the year 2000 and just administratively renewed.
On March 21st, 2011. See this statement in context.