Dunbar-LeBlanc CRTC policy review due out this afternoon

GATINEAU – After just over four months of study, A two-person Broadcast Policy Review Panel filed its report with the CRTC last week and the Commission will release it today, Cartt.ca has learned. Similar to the 2005 Telecom Policy Review Panel which caused a sea-change in telecom, this new broadcasting report has the potential to do the very same for broadcast. Commissioning a report like this and simply assigning two lawyers (albeit two good ones in Fasken Martineau DuMoulin lawyers Laurence Dunbar of Toronto and Christian Leblanc of Montreal) is a bit of an unusual move for the CRTC. “This...