Altering the Acts: Panel recommends huge future role for a new CRTC, Cancon contributions from everywhere

Renamed Commission would oversee all media in Canada By Denis Carmel OTTAWA – Eighteen months, thousands of pages from more than 2000 written submissions, dozens of staff and six panel members have produced a shockingly thorough 235-page report which proposes 97 recommendations to change the Broadcasting Act, Telecommunications Act and Radiocommunications Act. The CRTC will be dead, long live the CCC One of the many recommendations from the Broadcasting & Telecommunications Legislative Review (BTLR) panel in its report called “Canada’s Communications Future: Time to Act” is a renamed CRTC where the new moniker would reflect the sweeping new regulatory powers...