Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you. What we have here is something that appears to be about broadcasting because it derives from broadcasting law and its intense regulation, but through the way it has defined the word “program”, that which is regulated by the CRTC has escaped any previous technological

Canadian Heritage committee  First of all, I think Mr. Trudel is making a brilliant defence of a system that is technologically obsolescent and in the process of being replaced, as regularly happens with technology and capitalism. It takes an obsolete system and renders it useless. It renders it hopeless. Th

Canadian Heritage committee  Mr. Danks is a businessman. He works successfully in a regulated environment. He's just had a taste of the power and ability of people to say no. It's a little shocking to him perhaps—

Canadian Heritage committee  It's called capitalism.

Canadian Heritage committee  The basic point is that the current regulated universe has about 4,000 to 5,000 entities. With Bill C-11, the range of entities that would come under CRTC jurisdiction may get up to several million. Indeed, there are no limitations, as far as I can see, on the range of sources be

Canadian Heritage committee  I reject the premises of the question.

Canadian Heritage committee  Mr. Palmer is the appropriate source of authority for this proposition. I will simply say, having followed the AGT cases, that an organization is not made to be federally regulated because it uses federally regulated services. Mr. Palmer will have the answer more precisely.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for asking us to appear. I'm Timothy Denton, and I'm chairman of the Internet Society Canada Chapter. Its membership consists largely of former regulators and senior public servants, Ph.D. candidates in communications and