ISP Summit 2020: Nothing is coming yet to update the Telecom Act

TORONTO – The day after the Heritage Minister tabled amendments to the Broadcasting Act in the House of Commons, the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, Navdeep Bains, “attended” the ISP Summit virtually in a somewhat stilted, and awfully short, Q&A session with Matt Stein, chair of Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) and CEO of Distributel. The questions seemed read and planned before the questions were asked – and it was over in seven minutes. That is called controlling the message. The Minister reiterated his stance that in response to the appeal of the August 2019 wholesale rates decision...