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Legislative review panel announces extension to comment period


OTTAWA – Today, the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislative Review (BTLR) panel announced it has extended the period in which it will receive written comments until January 11th, 2019, Cartt.ca has learned.On Thursday, November 1st, at the 16th Annual Conference of the International Institute of Communications, held in Ottawa, the panel participated in a town hall with members in the Industry. At that forum, they heard from consumer groups that lack the resources of big companies needed some more time to fully participate in the review process. The deadline for written comments had been set on for November 30th.(UPDATE: While Cartt.ca...