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At hearing, CRTC learns kids do the darnedest things

GATINEAU – Imagine - a video presentation at the CRTC’s hearings on broadcasting! Who would ever think of doing that? “3-2-1. Blastoff!” The Shaw Rocket Fund cleverly grabbed the attention of CRTC commissioners yesterday with a short animated video to make their point that children, as the ones who are already immersed in multi-media culture, should have a voice in this three-week gabfest about a future Canadian broadcasting model. But it also took a former Radio-Canada journalist and now CRTC commissioner, Michel Morin, to ask the most probing question of the day: how come no one else at these hearings...