Mr. John Lawford at the Industry, Science and Technology Committee

On July 25th, 2022. See this statement in context.

July 25th, 2022 / 3:55 p.m.

Executive Director and General Counsel, Public Interest Advocacy Centre

Sure.

Apart from a proper CRTC deep dive and the reconsideration of whether to impose quality-of-service requirements on the companies, which is our preferred way to go, cabinet can also, under section 14 of the Telecommunications Act, ask for a report. If the CRTC is not doing a report—because there's no guarantee it will—then cabinet can ask for a complete report and make the CRTC do it.

At the moment, we're not quite clear on what's going on at the CRTC. We wrote procedurally to say, “Why are you asking these questions? Are you going to do a proper hearing?” We haven't heard back yet.

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