Altering the Acts: Synchronicities and contrasts as panel chair Yale meets the Senate

By Denis Carmel

OTTAWA – As a coincidence, the Senate Committee on Transport and Communications heard as witnesses on Wednesday evening Janet Yale, head of the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislative Review expert panel and Monique Simard, one of its members.Of course, both were attending the International Institute of Communications (IIC) Conference the same day and heard of the challenges the industry is facing but as Yale said in her opening remarks to the Senators: “Our mandate is very much based on generating recommendations in aid of legislative change. For that reason, we intend to push stakeholders to be as specific as possible in...