Heritage Committee recommends yet another panel of digital media study...

OTTAWA - After studying the impact of emerging and digital media environment in Canada over the past two years, the federal government’s Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage has recommended that yet another panel be created. This one to propose a new national policy on digital media – which is sort of already under way.Sigh...The committee noted that the vast majority of witnesses who appeared before it agreed that Canada needs a national digital strategy. Just what that strategy should and shouldn’t contain proved to be a highly divisive issue (and it’s something Industry Minister Tony Clement says he is working...