COMMENTARY: Why Bill C-10 must hold the Canadian giants in check

By Jay Thomson THE CCSA WAS FORMED in the early 1990s, around the same time as the current Broadcasting Act came into force. Like the Act back then, our members at the time did not contemplate the growth in size and influence of the “foreign digital giants”. But also like the Act back then, our members did not contemplate the massive consolidation that would take place in the Canadian broadcasting industry. Neither the Act nor our members contemplated that just three domestic companies – Bell, Rogers and Quebecor – would come to dominate Canada’s communications marketplace; that, through ownership of...