Mr. Speaker, today we learn of an application before the CRTC for permission to operate three hard core adult entertainment channels on Canadian cable. If this application goes through, it will offer around the clock porn to Canadian cable and satellite subscribers.
One hopes the CRTC will fulfil its current mandate in this matter. The CRTC has the power to regulate and monitor all aspects of the Canadian broadcast system under the Broadcasting Act.
The Liberal government is responsible for that act and must be held accountable. In situations like this one common sense must prevail. Why is it in times past that the CRTC could approve playboy channels but turn down a Catholic education channel?
The government has allowed the regulatory agency to get involved in some cases, but look the other way in others. It is time to review the entire mandate of the CRTC. It is time to ask the government to rewrite the Broadcasting Act.