Canadian Heritage committee  Perhaps I could add one thing. There's no requirement, currently, in the Broadcasting Act for the CRTC to provide reasons in its decisions, which is why it's so difficult to tackle them. And when there's no requirement even to give reasons in policy statements, we have no way of

Canadian Heritage committee  CEP has been recommending for some time that the commission give consideration to new methods of licensing, including competitive licences. At this point licences are effectively being bought and sold. They're being sold to the highest bidders because it makes sense. From an econ

Canadian Heritage committee  By the way, in 1970, of course, we were already on the verge of massive concentration of ownership under the former 1970 royal commission on broadcasting. So we've come a long way, but at this point we are at the tipping point.

Canadian Heritage committee  The current Broadcasting Act makes it an offence to breach either a regulation or a condition of licence. The CRTC can also issue mandatory orders currently. It has issued mandatory orders, but even though those have in turn been breached, the CRTC has not followed it up at the c

Canadian Heritage committee  No.