The CRTC has abandoned its mandate, and it’s hurting Canadians

The CRTC has been effectively incapacitated by the incumbents’ lawyering and lobbying and the government’s inability to follow through on making its policy directives clear.

CRTC chairperson Ian Scott is pictured in Ottawa in December 2018. The CRTC has ensured that Canadians’ internet rates, which are already among the highest in the developed world, will continue to rise. Companies like ours will struggle to invest in the innovation consumers so badly need and want, writes Matt Stein.The Hill Times file photograph

Opinion

BY MATT STEIN

June 9, 2021

The CRTC has let Canadians down. At a time when internet access is so critically important, the CRTC has inexplicably chosen to overturn its own 2019 ruling that would have lowered rates for consumers across Canada. At Distributel, we work hard to build the innovative services Canadians want at th...

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