COMMENT: Commissioner Denton rightly bangs free speech drum in call for feds to act on the Act

WE’VE READ ALL SORTS of dissenting opinions on CRTC from individual commissioners who don’t agree with their co-panellists. But a “concurring opinion”? That’s a new one for us. Yesterday’s release of the Commission’s broadcasting in new media review was not exactly an earth-shattering moment. Response was a tepid “yea” for the most part because faced with the Act that binds its actions as well as what’s going on in reality and using common sense, the Regulator did all it could by saying no to changes in its exemption orders, going to the Federal Court, and calling for a national digital...