CRTC, in the eye of many storms, enters a new era

Never have the demands on and expectations of the federal broadcast and telecom regulator been so high and so critical.
On the Rogers disruption, Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne, right, pictured June 8 on the Hill, was the first one to step in, summoning the telecom CEOs to a meeting to hear the outrage of Canadians and talk about how they would avoid the chaos going forward. He gave them three issues to figure out with a 60-day deadline.
OTTAW—Hardly a day goes by without the CRTC being in the news. Never have the demands on and expectations of the federal broadcast and telecom regulator been so high and so critical. And this happening after decades of a growing view that it is time to shut the place down now that we had reached ...

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