Shoan launches another judicial review challenging CRTC chairman’s authority

Ontario commissioner not named to most panelsOTTAWA – The conflict between CRTC Ontario commissioner Raj Shoan and chairman Jean-Pierre Blais has escalated again.Earlier this month, Shoan filed another judicial review with the Federal Court of appeal once again challenging the CRTC chairman’s ability to name panels of commissioners to preside over telecom hearings. While Blais and the CRTC’s legal department maintain the chairman has the right to name panels of commissioners for hearings (which has been the accepted practice according to former commissioners and others we have talked to), Shoan insists that under the Telecommunications Act, the chair is not...