{"id":1059,"date":"2007-02-07T06:47:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-07T06:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2017-01-25T17:53:37","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T22:53:37","slug":"parliamentary-industry-committee-hang-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=1059","title":{"rendered":"Parliamentary industry committee hang-ups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cmte.parl.gc.ca\/cmte\/CommitteePublication.aspx?SourceId=178521\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.parl.gc.ca\/Common\/Parl\/Images\/Emblem_HOC_Black_E.jpg\" alt=\"INDU Committee\" width=\"113\" height=\"166\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Parliament&#8217;s Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology (INDU) has been conducting an investigation into <a href=\"http:\/\/cmte.parl.gc.ca\/cmte\/CommitteeList.aspx?Lang=1&amp;PARLSES=391&amp;JNT=0&amp;SELID=e22_.2&amp;STAC=1855209\">Deregulation in Telecommunications<\/a>, in the wake of Minister Bernier&#8217;s decision to proceed with cabinet&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ic.gc.ca\/cmb\/welcomeic.nsf\/261ce500dfcd7259852564820068dc6d\/85256a5d006b97208525718c0059d6a9%21OpenDocument\">policy direction<\/a> to the CRTC and its <a href=\"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=1135\">interventions<\/a> into a few CRTC Decisions. There are a number of sessions taking place through the month of February.In <a href=\"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=1209\">October<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/cmte.parl.gc.ca\/cmte\/CommitteePublication.aspx?SourceId=178832\">INDU committee recommending<\/a> the Minister to delay interventions to the CRTC until the Committee had a chance to conduct more studies.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday&#8217;s National Post had an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/nationalpost\/financialpost\/story.html?id=059d460c-814f-488b-9d98-5c776c366cb4&amp;k=60201\">article<\/a> about CRTC Vice-Chair Rick French appearing as a witness on <a href=\"http:\/\/cmte.parl.gc.ca\/cmte\/CommitteePublication.aspx?SourceId=190484&amp;Lang=1&amp;PARLSES=391&amp;JNT=0&amp;COM=10476\">Monday<\/a>. Sheridan Scott, from the Competition Bureau also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.competitionbureau.gc.ca\/internet\/index.cfm?itemID=2275&amp;lg=e\">appeared<\/a>. There is another meeting <a href=\"http:\/\/cmte.parl.gc.ca\/cmte\/CommitteePublication.aspx?SourceId=190248&amp;Lang=1&amp;PARLSES=391&amp;JNT=0&amp;COM=10476\">scheduled for this afternoon<\/a>, with witnesses from the cable companies and CLEC community.<\/p>\n<p>With <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/cp\/business\/070206\/b0206149A.html\">news reports<\/a> breaking about the government&#8217;s position on Net Neutrality, it will be interesting to see if the Committee&#8217;s agenda gets side tracked. I <a title=\"Favouring free markets over net neutrality\" href=\"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=1062\" target=\"_blank\">published my free-market viewpoint<\/a> on the story last night. For a contrary view, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgeist.ca\/content\/view\/1664\/125\/\">Michael Geist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Playing politics in a minority government is delicate work. If there are to be legislative changes to give effect to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telecomreview.ca\/epic\/internet\/intprp-gecrt.nsf\/en\/rx00066e.html\">report of the Telecom Policy Review panel<\/a>, we&#8217;ll be watching for a compromise approach to working with the INDU parliamentary committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parliament&#8217;s Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology (INDU) has been conducting an investigation into Deregulation in Telecommunications, in the wake of Minister Bernier&#8217;s decision to proceed with cabinet&#8217;s policy direction to the CRTC and its interventions into a few CRTC Decisions. 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