Cartt.ca IN-DEPTH: Our new media world helped Konrad von Finckenstein change the CRTC, industry

KONRAD VON FINCKENSTEIN made a lot of work for a lot of us. As he has noted since he first took the job of CRTC chair in January of 2007, he wanted to make the CRTC more open, predictable, fair, and timely. While by our judgment he succeeded, with that openness came more public processes and a quick count of the number of public proceedings under his watch comes to 103. His predecessor, the late Charles Dalfen, called just 78. Mr. Dalfen, however, never had to deal with the likes of YouTube, Facebook or Twitter. Coinciding with von Finckenstein’s tenure...