Altering the Acts: Senators slam makeup of expert review panel; Yale responds (UPDATE)

By Denis Carmel

OTTAWA – Last evening, the Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications heard how staff at Canadian Heritage as well as Innovation, Science and Economic Development might change the Telecommunications, Broadcasting and the Radiocommunication Act.As we’ve reported, the Senate is thinking about how the legislation can be modernized to account for the evolution of the broadcasting and telecommunications sectors in the last decades. As you may have heard, the federal government has appointed an expert panel to do the same thing.Some criticisms were voiced by Senators on the composition of that panel. For example, Committee Chair, David Tkachuk, Conservative Senator...