COMMENTARY: Is what's good for Bell Canada good for the country?

IF RHETORIC AND HYPERBOLE were gasoline, a single spark would have razed the entire Toronto Congress Centre this week. The speeches from Bell Canada Enterprises CEO Michael Sabia and Telus CEO Darren Entwistle at this week's excellent Canadian Telecom Summit – as well as comments from a few others who work under them – suggest that not only are the communications of all Canadians utterly crippled by wacky regulation, but that our CRTC stands in the way of all Canuck creativity, innovation and productivity. It's an absurd notion, really. But it's one much of the nation's consumer media has surely...