TELECOM POLICY REVIEW: Industry committee misses deadline

OTTAWA - A November 3rd deadline has come and gone for the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology to make its recommendations to the Minister on the Telecommunications Policy Review Panel report. That’s because the Opposition parties, with their majority in the House and in committee, approved a motion to delay the whole process at least until March. After telecom industry players appeared before the committee last month (as reported by Cartt.ca), such a delay looked likely even then.The late-October motion, put forward by Bloc Québécois MP Paul Crête and supported by the Liberals, asks for the delay in...