IIC 2018: Dump the exemption order? Not so fast, says Scott; and some advice for the Act drafters

OTTAWA – Everyone always has ideas for what the CRTC should do – and there were no shortage of them this week at the IIC Canada conference in Ottawa, but today CRTC chair Ian Scott offered a key idea of his own to legislators as they examine the re-writing of the Broadcasting, Telecom and Radiocommunications Acts.First though, let’s address people telling the Commission what to do. Beginning with a panel session Wednesday morning on day one of the conference – and continuing as a much-discussed theme throughout the two day gathering – was the idea that the CRTC should eliminate...