{"id":172,"date":"2009-07-13T12:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T12:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=172"},"modified":"2009-07-13T12:34:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T12:34:00","slug":"did-the-crtc-rewrite-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=172","title":{"rendered":"Did the CRTC rewrite history?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" alt=\"CRTC\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crtc.gc.ca\/includes\/eng\/sidenavs\/nav_crtc.gif\" border=\"0\" \/>Michael Hennessy has recently started blogging and he <a href=\"http:\/\/whendogsranfree.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/intrusive-but-arguably-reasonable.html\">points<\/a> to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephentaylor.ca\/2009\/07\/crtc-drops-references-to-egregious-abuses-of-hrcs-from-final-report-on-broadcasting-in-new-media\/\">blog post by Stephen Taylor<\/a> that found that the CRTC amended its new media decision (Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2009-329), excising a paragraph from the concurring opinion that was written by Commissioner Tim Denton.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the following quote was removed:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-size: 85%; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-align: justify;\"><p>The history of the regulation of speech in this country does not engender confidence that such powers will be used wisely. Canada has experienced several instances in recent times where regulatory commissions of another type and armed with a different mission have challenged the right to say controversial things. The struggles of Ezra Levant<sup>14<\/sup>, Mark Steyn<sup>15<\/sup> and others have served as important warnings that regulatory authorities charged with combating racism, hatred, and other evils have consistently expanded their mandates, have abused their powers and eroded fundamental liberties. Wherever there is official orthodoxy, disagreement is heresy, and where there is heresy, there is usually an inquisition to root it out. After centuries ridding ourselves of thought control agencies, 20th century Canada re-invented them. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The original version was cited by Mark Steyn on his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steynonline.com\/content\/view\/2136\/128\/\">blog<\/a>, who nominated Denton to head up the CHRC. Steyn also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steynonline.com\/content\/view\/2244\/128\/\">picked up<\/a> the issue of the removal of the paragraph.<\/p>\n<p>While one might wonder whether this paragraph should have ever been in a CRTC decision, the usual way the CRTC has amended an officially released document is to issue an amendment, erratum, correction &#8211; usually by means of a &#8220;dash&#8221; order &#8211; resulting in say, Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2009-329-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Hennessy has recently started blogging and he points to a blog post by Stephen Taylor that found that the CRTC amended its new media decision (Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2009-329), excising a paragraph from the concurring opinion that was written by Commissioner Tim Denton. Apparently, the following quote was removed: The history of the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=172\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Did the CRTC rewrite history?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Did the CRTC rewrite history? &#8226; Telecom Trends<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Michael Hennessy has recently started blogging and he points to a blog post by Stephen Taylor that found that the CRTC amended its new media decision &#8226; July 13, 2009\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=172\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Did the CRTC rewrite history? 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