Proudly acting "like a dinosaur", the CRTC will make up its own mind, based on evidence, not anecdote

VANCOUVER – The speech CRTC chairman Jean-Pierre Blais gave yesterday to the Vancouver Board of Trade looked like a plea for Canadians to take a deep breath, step back, and let the Regulator do its work on the TV Policy Review – and to remind all that decisions will be based solely on the hard evidence presented to it.Blais referenced the beginnings of the satellite TV era in Canada where the incumbent cable companies and others used the term Death Star to describe the potential newcomers. Back then, incumbents spoke of all manner of ruination that would come to Canadian...