Oda wants CRTC to do some crystal-balling

BANFF – The CRTC has a new task ahead of it now: predict the future. During her speech at the Banff World Television Festival today, Bev Oda, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Status of Women, said the Federal Government will ask the CRTC to study "how continuing technological changes are expected to shape the entire broadcasting industry in the years ahead." Oda is using Section 15 of the Broadcasting Act, which lets the government request that the CRTC hold hearings or report on issues that fall under the Commission's jurisdiction. "With the arrival of new technologies, the growth of the...