Corrected: Shoan takes chairman Blais to court again over “the decision-making process at the Commission”

TORONTO – Ontario CRTC commissioner Raj Shoan says chairman Jean-Pierre Blais has been exceeding his authority by “unilaterally” naming panels of commissioners to hear and decide upon certain applications made to the Regulator and so Shoan has asked the Federal Court of Canada to prohibit the chair from naming such panels on his own.Shoan’s application to the Court and his affidavit says chairman Blais has convened all commissioner panels for CRTC matters, but also that the chairman is not technically allowed to do that on his own. Instead those decisions are supposed come from a committee, not just the chair,...