Cartt.ca Investigates: Getting our Acts together (part II of our series)

By Perry Hoffman

WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT to begin getting into the weeds of modernizing the Telecommunications Act and Broadcasting Act at some point in 2018 (one hopes), a major consideration will be whether it’s time to do away with two governing pieces of legislation and prune them into a single Communications Act.Greg Taylor, an assistant professor in the Department of Communications, Media and Film at the University of Calgary, said the government made a mistake back in the 1990s to fold the Department of Communications just as the Internet was coming on the scene.“I think what we need is one department overseeing...