Mr. Richard French at the Industry, Science and Technology Committee

On February 5th, 2007. See this statement in context.

February 5th, 2007 / 3:50 p.m.

Vice-Chair, Telecommunications, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission

The Telecommunications Act was written in sufficiently generous terms to leave sufficient room for interpretation. Historically, the CRTC has benefited from sufficient latitude from successive governments of various political stripes to interpret the legislation as it sees fit.

This no longer seems to be true, but this is consistent with the Constitution and the statutes.

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