Mme Sheridan Scott at the Industry, Science and Technology Committee

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

February 5th, 2007 / 4:55 p.m.

Commissioner of Competition, Competition Bureau, Department of Industry

—and that we be allowed to impose pecuniary sanctions when it is deregulated.

From what we can see, Bill C-41 is supposed to follow deregulation. So it is indeed in keeping with the report.

There were no sanctions for the CRTC, but this was limited to the regulatory period. So the fact of giving us the power to impose pecuniary sanctions as soon as the market was deregulated was part of the recommendations contained in the report.

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