COMMENTARY: The time has come for real competition in television

THE CRTC WILL SOON make a decision on Bell’s bid to get its hands on Séries+ and Historia again.Bell had been forced to sell off the two specialty channels in 2013 when it took over Astral. It’s high time for the CRTC to start promoting innovation instead of shoring up Bell’s dominance.Does the CRTC realize that its decisions are helping to increase TV ownership concentration and giving Bell enormous bargaining power, enabling it to crush the competition by snapping up the most coveted content in both languages? The CRTC is also allowing channels that were in a monopoly position for...