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The Industry Minister’s policy direction<\/a> to the CRTC received a rocky reception in its review by parliamentary committee<\/a>. The process of approving the policy direction is breaking new ground. Never before has Cabinet issued such a direction to the CRTC. The Minister announced the move in his keynote address to The Canadian Telecom Summit<\/a> last June.<\/p>\n

According to the Telecom Act<\/a>, prior to proclaiming the policy direction, we require consultation with the provinces and relevant committees of the Houses of Parliament.<\/p>\n

“Consultation with”, but does that mean “approval by” these groups?<\/p>\n

Last week, the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology voted to recommend<\/p>\n

that the government impose a moratorium on implementing instructions respecting telecommunications policies recommended to the CRTC to allow the Committee to hear more witnesses in order to make a more thorough study and subsequently present a report to the House on the impact of the deregulation no later than March 1, 2007<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Conservative members of the Committee voted against the motion and were permitted to prepare a 2-page minority report. The Committee will present the resolution to the full House of Commons, which will create a delay, assuming the Governor in Council wants to operate with a view to the direction from the committee process.<\/p>\n

The policy direction was seen to be an expedient way of pushing a market-force agenda without going through the pain of legislative changes to the Telecom Act. It is perhaps a foreshadowing of the challenges of effecting change with a minority government.<\/p>\n

As we wrote<\/a> a couple weeks ago, the very existence of the notice of policy direction has put the matter onto the CRTC’s agenda. Will we notice a change when the direction is actually proclaimed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Industry Minister’s policy direction to the CRTC received a rocky reception in its review by parliamentary committee. The process of approving the policy direction is breaking new ground. Never before has Cabinet issued such a direction to the CRTC. The Minister announced the move in his keynote address to The Canadian Telecom Summit last …<\/p>\n

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