Proposed CRTC order: Don't weaken facilities-based policy, say incumbents

By Denis Carmel

Industry, others, provide feedbackOTTAWA – On February 26th, the Government of Canada proposed new CRTC Policy direction to put Canadians at the forefront of future telecommunications decisions, as Cartt.ca reported.By law, this proposed Order must be put for comments for a period of 30 days after being published in the Canada Gazette. April 8th was the deadline for intervenors to make their comments known to the Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development.(Ed note: By law, the federal government doesn’t have to listen to any of the recommendations, if it has already made up its mind, which could be the...