CALGARY - Shaw Communications says the CRTC has “betrayed Canadians' trust” with Monday’s announcement of two new taxes on TV consumers. "It is difficult to believe the CRTC is mandating these tax transfers - money from the pockets of ten million Canadians to three Canadian broadcasters", said president Peter Bissonnette in a statement released Wednesday. Like its cable brethren Rogers, Shaw has vowed to fight the new fees “aggressively”, noting that broadcasters have not commited to spending more on local programming with the additional funds. "Our customers are already heavily subsidizing the broadcasters with a CRTC ordered tax of 5%...
