Mr. Éric Dagenais at the Industry, Science and Technology Committee

On November 19th, 2020. See this statement in context.

November 19th, 2020 / 12:30 p.m.

Senior Assistant Deputy Minister, Spectrum and Telecommunications Sector, Department of Industry

That's no problem. The CRTC is part of the federal government.

I can't speak to when the CRTC will announce the recipients of the funding under the process that was postponed until August 2020. Of the $750 million in available funding, a total of five projects valued at $72 million were announced by the CRTC in August. Other projects will be announced, but I can't tell you when. I'm not privy to that information. The CRTC is an independent body and does not necessarily share its decision-making timetable with staff at Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada.

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